Pithy wit and wisdom from New Zealand. lol.
_Vin
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001 cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:41 PM
To: cfrgietf.org; ogudogud.com
Subject: RE: [Cfrg] Defining inter operable ECC keys in for
IETF protocols
"Blumenthal, Uri" <uri.blumenthalintel.com> writes:
>I would MUCH prefer ECC - but my lawyers (yuk!) are
telling me that there are
>licensing problems, and supposed NSA contacts don't
call them back.
>
>Anybody knows anything useful about licensing of ECC
GF(p), that he can
>share with me?
Certicom have done such a good job of creating FUD about ECC
legal
issues that, unless you're a Certicom licensee, it's
easier to not
use it at all.
So far every time I've been asked about ECC support (which
admittedly
is once a blue moon anyway), I've asked the organisation
who want it
to come back to me with either proof of a Certicom license
or a clear
statement of which non- infringing mechanisms they want me
to
implement. In every case, after looking at what's
involved, they've
decided they didn't need ECC that much anyway.
It's like the conclusion from Wargames, the only way to win
is not to play.
Peter.
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