Re: NSA chooses ECC

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:33:22 +0100

Marcel Martin writes:

> The previous mail was written on 10/27. On 10/30, the US Federal
> Trade Commission asked a reform on US patents. See
>
> http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html#News
>
> Do the US civil servants always react so quickly? :-)

All you have to do is write your software that infringes on 2,483
patents without telling anyone about it. Sure, someone might suspect a
patent infringement (it can be pretty much taken for granted in any
non-trivial program these days), but the program would have to be
reverse-engineered to prove it ... and that would violate the DMCA. 

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