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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:54 ADT
Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 21:36:59 +1000 (EST)
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Vin McLellan wrote:
> This teapot furor about whether a patented algorithm -- if one were
> eventually chosen to be the AES -- will be made available by the inventor
> free of patent encumberances is absurd. Of course it will be! NIST
> requires it and the US Congress demands it. Any contract transferring
> control of an algorithm to the US government so that it can become the AES
> will explicitly declare the algorithm, in all formats, to be royalty-free
> worldwide. That was part of initial call for AES candidates two years ago.
>
> We all _know_ this, don't we?
I thought DSA was clouded by patent issues for a while there.
I would expect the transfer conditions to be more probably be 'fair and
reasonable licencing conditions to all'. Since when did the USA belive if
Nationalising industry/ideas/patents :-).
eric
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:54 ADT