Dean:
If I understand correctly, Certicom has over 130 patents in ECC and public key crypto and has sold 26 patents and patent applications on the subject to the US National Security Agency. The NSA controls licening rights on those patents, not Certicom. The licensing situation is much more clouded by that sale.
You do not understand correctly. NSA and Certicom gave briefings at the SAAG session at the last IETF meeting held in Washington, DC. The slides and other information from that session are in the proceedings.
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/04nov/slides/saag-2/sld1.htm http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/04nov/slides/saag-5.pdf http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/04nov/slides/saag-4/sld1.htmRuss
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