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Lewis McCarthy (lmccarth@cs.umass.edu)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 20:29:15 -0400
Jim Gillogly writes:
> Perhaps it's both then, since Hal is right about the rumor. At the
> IETF S/MIME working group meeting on 30 Mar it was announced in
> suitably friend-of-a-friend third person terms that some variants of
> the ANSI X9.42 Diffie-Hellman (aka ElGamal) scheme had had patents
> applied for by an unnamed company or companies.
Rather than the Schnorr patent, this may be related to the
patent(s) on the Nyberg-Rueppel signature schemes, apparently now held
by Certicom.
-L
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