Fwd: Re: Patents and draft-ietf-smime-x942-00.txt

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

Well, S/MIME's misery may be OpenPGP's misery as well. It would be good if
someone who understands the patents and the D-H variants looks over the
message below and determines whether it also applies to the ElGamal used in
OpenPGP.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium

>X-Lotus-FromDomain: CERTICOM
>From: "Paul Lambert" <plambert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxx>
>cc: ietf-smime@xxxxxxx, djohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx, plambert@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>        jis@xxxxxxx
>Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:43:25 -0700
>Subject: Re: Patents and draft-ietf-smime-x942-00.txt
>Sender: owner-ietf-smime@xxxxxxx
>
>Russ,
>
>>Does anyone, especially anyone from Certicom, have any additional
>>information on this topic?
>
>Yes, the IEEE patent statement is an accurate description of Certicom's
>currently issued and pending patents applicable to IEEE 1363.  Some of the
>pending patents apply to X9.42.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul A. Lambert
>
>VP of Product Management
>Certicom Corp.
>San Mateo California
>(650) 312-7996
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxx> on 07/09/98 02:05:52 PM
>
>To:   ietf-smime@xxxxxxx
>cc:   djohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx, plambert@xxxxxxxxxxx, jis@xxxxxxx (bcc: Paul
>      Lambert/Certicom)
>Subject:  Re: Patents and draft-ietf-smime-x942-00.txt
>
>
>
>All:
>
>At the recent IEEE P1363 meeting a letter from Certicom was circulated that
>claimed patent protection on a number of techniques in the P1363 standard.
>X9.42 and P1363 are very highly aligned in the area of Diffie-Hellman.  One
>of these techniques is Public Key Validation, which is described in Section
>2.1.5 of draft-ietf-smime-x942-00.txt.
>
>A copy of the letter can be found at:
>
>http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/letters/Certicom.txt
>
>Does anyone, especially anyone from Certicom, have any additional
>information on this topic?
>
>Russ
>
>
>>> From:  housley@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> Sent:  Friday, June 19, 1998 3:52 PM
>>> To:    ietf-smime@xxxxxxx
>>> Cc:    djohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx; plambert@xxxxxxxxxxxx; jis@xxxxxxx;
>>> bfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; paulv@xxxxxxxxxxx; whitfield_diffie@xxxxxxxxxxx;
>>> cme@xxxxxxxxx; jon@xxxxxxxxxx; cadams@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject:    Patents and draft-ietf-smime-x942-00.txt
>>>
>>> All:
>>>
>>> The Internet-Draft draft-ietf-smime-x942-00.txt specified on of the
>>> variants fron the ANSI X9.42 Draft Standad. This vairant of
>Diffie-Hellman
>>> seems to be clear of IBM's pending patent.
>>>
>>> At this point, I waould like all S/MIME WG members to determine if there
>>> are any other potential patents (pending or otherwise) that might impact
>>> the use of the Diffie-Hellman variant specified in
>>> draft-ietf-smime-x942-00.txt.  At this point I am unaware of any, and
>this
>>> query is to avoid any rude surprises.
>>>
>>> Please forward this note to anyone who might offer assistance in the
>quick
>>> resolution of this matter.
>>>
>>> Russ
>>> S/MIME WG Chair
> 

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium