Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/12/01/0335225/sued-for-using-https-companies-in-crypto-patent-fight
According to an article in The Register, corporations
big and small are coming under legal fire from CryptoPeak. The
Company holds U.S. Patent 6,202,150, which describes
"auto-escrowable and auto-certifiable cryptosystems" and has
claimed that the Elliptic Curve Cryptography
methods/implementations used as part of the HTTPS protocol
violates their intellectual property. Naturally, reasonable
people disagree.
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