[Cryptography] FW: RFC 7253 on The OCB Authenticated-Encryption Algorithm

Fri May 30 15:00:12 EDT 2014

On May 30, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries... The OCB Authenticated-Encryption Algorithm http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7253.txt
What's the policy concerning patents and RFC's?  OCB is patented, though with a bunch of exceptions http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm  There's not (so far?) any exception related to implementing an RFC as such (though there is a FRAND promise on that page).

                                                        -- Jerry

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