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Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter
Ben Laurie <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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