-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:22:29AM -0600, Ian S. Nelson wrote: > 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. The AES rules stipulated that it must be unencumbered by patents if it won and that entries that were patent encumbered before hand would be looked upon less favourably. > Anyone know who won yet? The NIST webcast page doesn't work. Rijndael. > 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 slainte mhath, RGB - -- Richard Guy Briggs -- PGP key available Auto-Free Ottawa! Canada <www.conscoop.ottawa.on.ca/rgb/> <www.flora.org/afo/> Prevent Internet Wiretapping! -- FreeS/WAN:<www.freeswan.org> Thanks for voting Green! -- <green.ca> Marillion:<www.marillion.co.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOdi3R9+sBuIhFagtAQGWggP/fwGm+9i7bsp9y+7DxOt3P/5Du601LWyT FR7IEA7XefayidWr9eNUASzBK6dJIj7cNG8hDjExbRJKiyD4DrkBmgcZsNnNxJNI pcs1IlmxkT1mri+N6MA0qnjxI1tpKlCigNd1h2ubskOk9xSPMhIhk4XavzBrLFjq ThUeEdikY/Y= =8hlS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
