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Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter

Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> Thu, 09 August 2001 15:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter
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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 17:24:43 +0200
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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.

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