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KDBriggs1@aol.com
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:08:44 EDT
vin@shore.net wrote:
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Bruce Schneier summarized the situation in Applied
Cryptography II by saying, in effect, that the DSA is still clouded by
patent issues.
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But Schneier also says this on p. 498 of AC2:
"All of the various discrete-logarithm-based digital signature schemes have
been put in one coherent framework. In my opinion this finally puts to rest
any patent dispute between Schnorr and DSA: DSA is not a derivative of
Schnorr, nor even of ElGamal. All three are examples of this general
construction, and this general construction is unpatented."
Kent
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