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[CFRG] Re: Request for adoption: Signature modes guidance / draft-harvey-cfrg-mtl-mode-03

"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> Mon, 05 August 2024 14:29 UTC

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Kaliski, Burt writes:
> * Verisign announced a public, royalty-free license to certain
> intellectual property related to draft-harvey-cfrg-mtl-mode-03.  IPR
> declarations 6174-6176 [11] give the official language.

I don't think most companies will find this license adequate: the
license terminates in case of subsequent litigation, and is only for
whatever is _required_ by an RFC.

---D. J. Bernstein

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