Re: [TLS] Document Action: 'TLS Elliptic Curve Cipher Suites with SHA-256/384 and AES Galois Counter Mode' to Informational RFC
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Re: [TLS] Document Action: 'TLS Elliptic Curve Cipher Suites with SHA-256/384 and AES Galois Counter Mode' to Informational RFC



Dean:

If I understand correctly, Certicom has over 130 patents in ECC and
public key crypto and has sold 26 patents and patent applications on the
subject to the US National Security Agency. The NSA controls licening
rights on those patents, not Certicom. The licensing situation is much
more clouded by that sale.

You do not understand correctly. NSA and Certicom gave briefings at the SAAG session at the last IETF meeting held in Washington, DC. The slides and other information from that session are in the proceedings.

http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/04nov/slides/saag-2/sld1.htm
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/04nov/slides/saag-5.pdf
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/04nov/slides/saag-4/sld1.htm

Russ
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