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Re: Looking for statement of patent issues re ISAKMP/Oakley

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> Wed, 11 March 1998 22:33 UTC

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Kenneth Durazzo writes:
> No flame.. it would just be nice to be able to implement good technology
> for use in the public domain without "paying through the nose" for it
> (read: standardization) which would be good for all.

Well, I'll point out that Diffie-Hellman itself, and Diffie-Hellman
based keying (i.e. El Gamal) are both out of patent these days.

Also, the RSA patent is expiring in about 700 days if I'm not mistaken.

Perry

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