Re: [Cfrg] Defining inter operable ECC keys in for IETF protocols

[Ben Laurie <ben at algroup.co.uk>]

Ólafur Guðmundsson wrote:
> Thanks to the people who have replied,
> 
> At 03:45 23/03/2006, Whyte, William wrote:
>> > I would MUCH prefer ECC - but my lawyers (yuk!) are telling
>> > me that there are licensing problems, and supposed NSA
>> > contacts don't call them back.
>> >
>> > Anybody knows anything useful about licensing of ECC GF(p),
>> > that he can share with me?
>>
>> I asked the NSA about this last year and was told that they
>> will sublicense their ECC license only for national security
>> applications.
> 
> As DNSSEC is classified as critical for Internet Infrastructure by
> DHS (Department of Homeland Security) DNSSEC use of ECC likely falls
> under the NSA licence :-) thus in this context please keep the IPR
> issues out of this discussion.

a) "likely" is not really a good enough answer.

b) are the NSA "likely" to grant a worldwide licence?

Cheers,

Ben.

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