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Re: Patent & licence for IPSec ?
Hillary,
I have been listening/reading this thread for a bit now and this is really
important material to deal with as far as basing any deliverables on these
technologies and the legal impacts thereof - It seems to me that to date,
this thread has been about the "lay understanding" of the IPSec process and
while that may be accurate I personally would feel better if there was a
corporate counsel from one of the players - maybe Cisco or IBM that agrees
with these general responses. Maybe that would be willing to issue and
opinion.
Few companies, especially the smaller EC startups, could survive an all-out
damages effort from one of the big players and so this is actually really
important to their adoption of the IPSec standards.
Just my two-cents -
Todd
-----Original Message-----
From: Hilarie Orman <ho@earth.hpc.org>
To: kent@bbn.com <kent@bbn.com>
Cc: mat@ca.mew.com <mat@ca.mew.com>; ipsec@tis.com <ipsec@tis.com>
Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: Patent & licence for IPSec ?
>> At this time are not aware of any intellectual property issues with the
>> base IPsec protocols and algorithms, or with IKE use of D-H. Use of
RSA
>> for certificate signatures, or use of ECC for key exchange does involve
>> patent issues.
>
>ECC over F[2^p] for DH key exchange does not infringe on intellectual
>property.
>
>Hilarie
>
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