ECC patents?

[Steven M. Bellovin]

In message <43254826.8070105 at algroup.co.uk>, Ben Laurie writes:
>Alexander Klimov wrote:

>> 
>> But (potential) problem still persists: even if openssl implements ECC
>> it does not save you from patent issues if they exist.
>
>It does if they are owned by Sun.
>

It does if *all necessary patent rights* are owned (or licensed) by 
Sun.  For obvious reasons, it's remarkably hard to get someone to say 
that they don't have a claim on some product.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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