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Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter

Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Fri, 10 August 2001 15:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter
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Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > You can't add it to the _standard_ because of restrictive licensing. I
> > guess Informational RFCs are possible, but they don't make me happy -
> > essentially the WG is doing free work, both technical and marketing, for
> > the owner(s) of the patents.
> 
> IIRC, not all ECC stuff is patented, only curves over GF(q), q even,
> which can be implemented efficiently using two-valued logic.

As I read it, this I-D includes these.

Cheers,

Ben.

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