Re: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP)

From: Valery Pryamikov (valery_at_harper.no)
Date: 11/22/05


Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:43:56 +0100

About licensing out of your csp - did you check that you didn't violate any
of EC patents hold by Certicom? http://www.certicom.com/index.php they are
currently holding more than 300 patents with most of them related to every
aspect of Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
and if I remember it correctly - they also have commerical ecc csp...
(note - I'm not associated with certicom in anyway).

-Valery.
http://www.harper.no/valery

<arik@codebuildingblocks.com> wrote in message
news:1132523732.372224.96280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> We have implemented an ECDSA CSP based on Crypto++ Library 5.2.3.
> It supports a subset of the standard curves with key sizes varying from
> 113 to 571 bits.
> ECDSA has the advantage of shorter keys (ten folds) than RSA
> signatures.
> We are using it in our applications and are interested in licensing it
> to other companies or individuals.
> Please contact me for further details.
>
> Thank you,
> Arik Yavilevich.
> CodeBuildingBlocks.
>



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