Re: Diffie Hellman + AES (Rjindael) Patent/Licensing?

From: Roger Schlafly (rogersc@mindspring.com)
Date: 02/26/03 

From: "Roger Schlafly" <rogersc@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:31:46 GMT

"DJohn37050" <djohn37050@aol.com> wrote
> Read the ieee p1363 patent letters, how much clearer can it be? There are
a
> few that mention DH.

The IEEE 1363 letters are here:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/P1363/patents.html

No claims on DH. As Paul would say, there is some FUD, but that's all.
One of those companies would have a very hard time making a DH
claim stick at this point, after being quiet for so long.

There is an inventor named Stambler who claims to have patents covering
SSL as practiced by RSAS and Verisign. I don't know whether he has a
claim on the DH variant of SSL. See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/20NET.html

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