[Cryptography] Microsoft's new, free, crypto library dubbed FourQ

[Peter Gutmann]

Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> writes:

>That's -- Highly uncharacteristic of Microsoft. 

This is Microsoft Research, not Microsoft corporate.  Like other academic
groups, they often make their work publicly available rather than keeping it
proprietary.  

At least one reason why they can do that is because, unlike corporate, open-
sourcing their code won't make them a target for every patent troll from
here to East Texas.

Peter.