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Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:32:55 -0500
At 11:08 AM 7/28/98 -0400, KDBriggs1@aol.com wrote:
>vin@shore.net wrote:
>>>>
>Bruce Schneier summarized the situation in Applied
>Cryptography II by saying, in effect, that the DSA is still clouded by
>patent issues.
><<<
>
>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."
Yes, but I am not a patent attorney. The above is my opinion, not a legal
opinion.
Bruce
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:58 ADT