Re: Elliptical Curve Encryption

Enzo Michelangeli (em@who.net)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:13:58 +0800

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http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/patents.html

(not only for Certicom's).

Enzo

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
To: Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com>; Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Cc: Paul Lambert <plambert@sprintmail.com>; CodherPlunks@toad.com
<CodherPlunks@toad.com>
Date: Thursday, July 16, 1998 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: Elliptical Curve Encryption

>At 11:59 AM 7/16/98 +1000, Eric Young wrote:
>>
>>On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Vin McLellan wrote:
>>> RSA has its pitch. Certicom has its pitch. The List can parse the
>>....
>>> Certicom is a company of considerable talents (cryptographers as
>>> well as marketeers;-) But just as your competitors have to deal with the
>>> size advantages of 160-bit ECC (and patent claims of the sort Certicom
has
>>> just lodged against X9.42, IEEE 1363, and the IETF's S/MIME,) Certicom
has
>>
>>And this in unfortunatly the way I see ECC.
>
>Can someone give me a pointer to the Certicom patent claims. I must have
been
>asleep here.
>
>Bruce
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