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- From: ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter)
- Subject: Re: NIST stumbles on proposal for public-key encryption
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.055837.10815@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <1992Jul27.130448.41907@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <25590.Jul2801.38.4492@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:58:37 GMT
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- In <25590.Jul2801.38.4492@virtualnews.nyu.edu> brnstnd@nyu.edu
- (Dan Bernstein) writes:
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- >One of NIST's stated goals for the standard was freedom from royalties,
- >for both government and industry. Obviously ``acceptance of RSA'' is out
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- If that is the case, then isn't it a shame that NIST does not own
- the public key patents. They seem to be awfully free with rights
- they do not own. There are at least two patent holders who claim
- that DSS infringes their patents [1]. Anyone using DSS commercially
- without licensing those patents is treading on thin ice.
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- Yes, NIST is said to have received a patent on DSS, but a new
- patent is *not* a license to practice the invention. A new patent
- is *not* a decision by the PTO that previous patents do not apply.
- Depending upon the quality of the NIST claims, the new patent may
- not even represent a bargaining position.
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- [1] Hellman, M. 1992. Response to NIST's Proposal. Communications
- of the ACM. 35(7):47-49. (this is the current July issue)
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- Terry Ritter ritter@cactus.org
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