[Cryptography] Licensing OCB (RFC 7253)

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 20:45 -0400, Salz, Rich wrote: 
> I had a nice set of email exchanges with Phillip.  Questions about licensing should be directed to him. In general, for a one-time fee you can get an unlimited license to use.  I won't quote the number I was given. In addition, he said:
> 	As per the "Patent License for OpenSSL" (License 3), anyone who gets OCB
> 	via the OpenSSL library may freely use it, as far as any IP that I own, for realizing SSL/TLS.
> 	You are welcome to put me on record saying so in whatever cryptography list you are speaking of.
> 
>  I did not bother to ask if that's transferrable down to forks, like LibreSS.
> 
> Hope this helps.

Much better information can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCB_mode#Patents

Cheers,
Chris.
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