Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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On 27 Jan 2002, at 21:17, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> I think the only patents of particular note for ECC are
> Certicom and H.P.'s ones on point-compression.

The original paper on ECC proposed point compression and
described the algorithm in 1985.

See Bernstein's web page
http://cr.yp.to/nistp224/patents.html

Use the 1985 method.

If the methods patented are the same, and as far as I can
tell they are, the patents are invalid.  If the methods
patented differ, you are not using them.

 

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