On 3/3/10 6:25 AM, "Blumenthal, Uri - 0662 - MITLL" <u...@ll.mit.edu> wrote:

> You're good!  :-)
> 
> On the vendor side - perhaps EKE patent concern was the cause (you
> implement/sell free SRP and get slapped with EKE licensing)? And the users
> found alternative solutions in the meanwhile?

No, I can say that this was definitely not the case in any instances that I
was involved in.  Performance, implementation complexity (of strong password
protocols in general), and protocol complexity ranked much higher on the
list.  Users cared far more about whether strong password protocols degraded
their user experience by adding round trips to the protocol; at that point,
patents were a complete non-issue.

Tom

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