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Re: Patent & licence for IPSec ?
You're asking for cisco or IBM to give you free legal advice. I don't
think that's gonna happen. If you want a professional legal opinion ask
a legal professional and be prepared to pay (and it'll be more than the
2 cents you contributed already :-).
Dan.
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 08:54:58 PDT you wrote
> 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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