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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:53 ADT
Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= (ulf@fitug.de)
Tue, 7 Apr 98 01:05 CET DST
>At the IETF meeting last week, there was a rumor going around of a
>patent which would cover ElGamal signatures (but supposedly not DSS).
>No details were available, however, and I haven't heard anything more
>about it.
It's the other way round. Schnorr claims that DSS is covered by his
patent (on the other hand, knowledgeable sources say it covers nothing
but the Schnorr algorithm implemented on chip cards). There is also a
DSS patent assigned to the US government which is available
royalty-free.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:53 ADT