Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-02-13 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Bob Bell (rtbell) wrote: [...] (for instance Certicom has a patent on having an ECC public key in an X.509 cert signed using RSA) [...] This patent really can not hold water if challenged (if the content's actually what's described here). This is what x509 has been designed to allow, also prior

RE: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-11 Thread Bob Bell (rtbell)
that might be fine or it might be a very slippery slope to a serious legal hassle. Bob _ From: Anilkumar Bollineni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11 January, 2008 13:03 To: openssl-users@openssl.org; Bob Bell (rtbell) Subject: RE: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code Hi B

RE: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-11 Thread Anilkumar Bollineni
still needs to be mapped. Bob Bell - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anilkumar Bollineni Sent: Thursday, 10 January, 2008 12:12 To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-11 Thread Rodney Thayer
Prakash Kamath wrote: My opinion: 2 times 2 = 4 no matter what approach you take, and so no one can sue you to doing that Math. However, if someone comes up with a math logic (software, hardware, combo, whatever) that does the same operation in a superior way, then that is patentable. I person

Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-11 Thread Rodney Thayer
Larry Bugbee wrote: I'm seeing vendors beginning to support ECC, and a couple of CAs discussing and preparing their CPs. who? got names you can mention in public? Our challenge as developers is to understand and be ready. My point is that we've been in "get ready for ECC" mode since at le

Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-11 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Rodney Thayer wrote: > As far as I'm concerned... Your analysis was very helpful. Thanks very much. -- 73, Ged. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Sup

RE: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Prakash Kamath
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Bugbee Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:41 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code Perhaps, and I'm not disagreeing, but for the most part, the crypto libraries have had ECC su

Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Larry Bugbee
han 255. This is a good Q&A on the details of this license http://www.certicom.ca/download/aid-501/FAQ-The%20NSA%20ECC%20License%20Agreement.pdf NSA did not license all of Certicom’s patents, only a subset for use in a limited “field of use”. Bill From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Rodney Thayer
ed “field of use”. Bill From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anilkumar Bollineni Sent: January 10, 2008 2:12 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code Hi there, I have a question on OpenSSL ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) code. I saw

Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Larry Bugbee
ll From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Anilkumar Bollineni Sent: January 10, 2008 2:12 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code Hi there, I have a question on OpenSSL ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) code. I saw that Sun syst

RE: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Anilkumar Bollineni
se”. Bill - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anilkumar Bollineni Sent: January 10, 2008 2:12 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code Hi there, I have a question on OpenSSL ECC

RE: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Bill Colvin
ed "field of use". Bill From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anilkumar Bollineni Sent: January 10, 2008 2:12 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code Hi there, I have a ques

RE: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Mohammed Rahman
Please, do the same for my userid too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Mohammed Rahman From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:06 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Sanjay . Chahar
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Re: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread max pritikin
:12 To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code Hi there, I have a question on OpenSSL ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) code. I saw that Sun systems has donated the the ECCcode to OpenSSL. Also I saw that Certicom has held 130 patents in ECC area and finally

RE: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Bob Bell (rtbell)
Of Anilkumar Bollineni Sent: Thursday, 10 January, 2008 12:12 To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code Hi there, I have a question on OpenSSL ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) code. I saw that Sun systems has donated the the ECCcode to OpenSSL. Also I saw that

About ECC patent and OpenSSL ECC code

2008-01-10 Thread Anilkumar Bollineni
Hi there, I have a question on OpenSSL ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) code. I saw that Sun systems has donated the the ECCcode to OpenSSL. Also I saw that Certicom has held 130 patents in ECC area and finally NSA has licensed that code. Suppose if I download the code from the OpenSSL