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Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS

Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com> Wed, 24 February 2010 18:13 UTC

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From: Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com>
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Subject: Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS
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On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, tytso@mit.edu wrote:

> Of course, the Certicom folks didn't listen to me back then, and I
> doubt any of them would listen to me now....

Didn't RIM buy Certicom (trumping Verisign) ?

I'm not sure who owns the patents and who owns licenses and whether
the new owners would allow their use freely and unrestricted.

Paul

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