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Re: [Cfrg] draft-black-rpgecc-00-.txt [was: Consensus and a way forward]

Michael Hamburg <mike@shiftleft.org> Thu, 27 November 2014 21:47 UTC

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Hi Benjamin,

That reminds me — not that this has much bearing on the latest draft — but did that Microsoft investigation into the ‘907 patent ever conclude one way or the other?

Thanks,
— Mike

> On Nov 27, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Benjamin Black <b@b3k.us> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Alyssa Rowan <akr@akr.io <mailto:akr@akr.io>> wrote:
> 
> The IPR section in that draft is remarkably short: of course you
> cannot patent numbers. (That's copyright's job. <g>) In order to
> satisfy IP1 and IP2 requirements we're going to need more information
> about the status of specific algorithms on those curves which people
> will actually use. As Dan Brown's recent message should highlight, we
> should evaluate the patent status and can't ignore it (unless we plan
> on ignoring them for long enough that they go away, and in that case,
> we need to know when!).
> 
> We are aware of no IP whatsoever covering the contents of the draft. I will update the IPR statement to be more clear.
>  
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