On 2011-11-11 6:11 AM, coderman wrote:
... or wait for all relevant patents to expire. note that a sufficient
period of time may extend beyond expiration for some safe duration of
months/years.
All the routinely used ECC technology is more than fifteen years old.
What stops them from
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
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
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, they
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org 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
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
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 9 Nov 2011, at 22:03, James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com 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
Jack Lloyd ll...@randombit.net 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
