Other Directory Sites: SeekWonder | Directory Owners Forum
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:21:01 ADT
Bill Stewart (bill.stewart@pobox.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 23:12:32 -0700
At 03:44 AM 7/28/98 -0400, Vin McLellan wrote:
> In his US patent <4,995,082>, Schnorr's lawyer apparently didn't
>capture the full range of claims made in his European and Japanese patents,
>which is perhaps why NIST and the NSA thought they could ignore Schnorr for
>the FIPS.
The government is only loosely bound by patents and copyrights for
their own use, though if they promulgate a standard for use by the public,
non-governmental users of that standard risk violating the law without
having the protection of sovereign immunity. The NSA resolved this
problem for DSA by repeated use of "Proof by Vigorous Assertion",
which is a less than satisfying rationale.
>After the NSA developed the DSA, in what many believe was an
>attempt to block the widespread acceptance of RSA,
I didn't think there was ever any question about it :-)
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:21:01 ADT