Re: [TLS] Straw poll on TLS SRP status

[pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)]

Yoav Nir <ynir at checkpoint.com> writes:

>However, Martin is right, in that the incentive works. ECC has been slowed
>down significantly by Certicom's patent claims, both in standards and in
>implementations.  This has finally made Certicom issue a royalty-free license
>for use of ECC in IKE and TLS.

Note however that the TLS license is booby-trapped: You can implement TLS, but
you can't do certs with it.  This makes the "royalty-free license" more or
less useless.

(I haven't looked at the IKE one, but I'm guessing it's the same thing there).

Peter.


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