Jim Schneider wrote: ...
Looking at uspto.gov will do you no good unless the patent has been issued - pending applications are not public record.
from yet another crypto patent application:
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The MQV (Menezes, Qu, Vanstone) protocol provides a method of sharing a key between two users of a public key cryptosystem that provides authentication of the key. This protocol is described in U.S. Pat No. 5,761,305, U.S. Pat. No. 5,889,865, U.S. Pat. No. 5,896,455, and U.S. Pat. No. 6,122,736.
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sounds like MQV has some patent problems
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