Re: [CFRG] compact representation and HPKE

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 12 February 2021 23:45 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Mike Hamburg <mike@shiftleft.org>, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
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Subject: Re: [CFRG] compact representation and HPKE
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It’s worth mentioning, on the subject of “but what about the patents”: the fastest set of x-only formulas I’m aware of, 11M/bit as described in https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/437.pdf<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/eprint.iacr.org/2020/437.pdf__;!!GjvTz_vk!FoLmklnd1IErYIx7e46VOa9x2Cj5Jvv895r5cwj6uatd6n8t7kxFcVbeGijZ$>, are patented by my employer (not my choice to make

Should someone file an IPR disclosure on this?