Re: NSA chooses ECC
From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_iahu.ca)
Date: 11/01/03
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Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 22:27:29 GMT
"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote in message
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> Joe Smith wrote:
> > Have you looked at the patents? I have, and most of them are 10
> > minutes for any second year math grad student. ...
>
> Difficulty has never been a criterion for a patent.
I think he meant that someone who works in the field will independently
re-invent the algorithm quickly.
And actually, a patent may not be trivially obvious. Which would be covered
in this case.
Tom
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