[Mac_crypto] Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?

[R. A. Hettinga]

Apple owns at least *one* EC patent, that I know of...

Cheers,
RAH

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Status: RO
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:28:23 +0100
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
From: Somebody
Subject: Re: [Mac_crypto] Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?

Sun doesn't own the EC patents.  Certicom does.  There has >never< been a
noise about Sun owning EC intellectual property.


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