Re: ECC patents?

2005-09-13 Thread Ram A Moskovitz
> Anyone can claim to have patented anything.  Someone
> recently patented the wheel, to show how bad the
> situation is.

I agree the system doesn't work well.


> I think these guys are just blowing
> smoke.  It has been a long time, and no one has paid out
> money on an ECC patent yet.

NSA licensed ECC patents from Certicom - that probably says something.

http://www.certicom.com/index.php?action=company,press_archive&view=292

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Re: the limits of crypto and authentication

2005-07-15 Thread Ram A Moskovitz
On 7/14/05, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

remember what Verisign was called before it was renamed Verisign?
Digital Certificates International, Inc. 

Did you consult for First Data Corp. at the time?