Jack Lloyd writes:
>For some reason RH legal seems especially frightened of crypto patents; it's
>not like dozens of features of gcc, the kernel, etc aren't covered by patents.
They may just be choosing where to fight their battles. If adaptive source
routing (affecting all use of Linux as a se
On 9 Nov 2011, at 22:03, "James A. Donald" wrote:
> On 2011-11-10 4:22 AM, Adam Back wrote:
>> Anyone have informed opinions on whether ECDSA is patent free?
>
OpenSSH have implemented use of ecc since 5.7. It will by default import the
ecdsa server host key if present. The OpenBSD project wou
On 2011-11-10 4:22 AM, Adam Back wrote:
Anyone have informed opinions on whether ECDSA is patent free?
Nothing is patent free. Anyone can patent anything, and they usually do.
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On 2011-11-10 4:53 AM, Jack Lloyd wrote:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 07:22:08PM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
Any suggestions on EC capable crypto library that implements things without
tripping over any certicom claimed optimizations?
They can claim whatever they want. Since they have more money for
la
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Adam Back wrote:
> Anyone have informed opinions on whether ECDSA is patent free?
ECDSA is part of BIST's Digital Signature Standard. A royalty free
license is a requisite.
> Any suggestions on EC capable crypto library that implements things without
> tripping ove
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 07:22:08PM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
> Any suggestions on EC capable crypto library that implements things without
> tripping over any certicom claimed optimizations?
They can claim whatever they want. Since they have more money for
lawyers than most open source projects, the
On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Adam Back wrote:
> Anyone have informed opinions on whether ECDSA is patent free?
Define "informed". Seriously. Do you want to hear from actual lawyers? People
who have talked to lawyers? People who think they understand law?
> Any suggestions on EC capable crypto l
Anyone have informed opinions on whether ECDSA is patent free?
Any suggestions on EC capable crypto library that implements things without
tripping over any certicom claimed optimizations?
(Someone pointed out to me recently that the redhat shipped openSSL is devoid
of ECC which is kind of a n
