Wasn't DES covered by a patent? I know Lucifer was and DES is closely related. Patent or no patent, AES should be fairly liberal in terms of usage restrictions. I don't remember the rules but I thought that there was some provision for patents. Anyone know who won yet? The NIST webcast page doesn't work. Marc Mutz wrote: > Alex, it might be that we lose: > > "Michael H. Warfield" wrote on gnupg-devel: > > > <snip> > > Serpent apparently is subject to a claim by Hitachi that it holds > > a patent over some aspect of it. Rumor has it that it's out of the race. > > That's based on a coderpunks posting which I have not been able to > > independently verify. > > > <snip> > > Marc > Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
