On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, 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. At the NIST AES WWW site (http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/) it says: === SPECIAL NOTE - Intellectual Property NIST reminds all interested parties that the adoption of AES is being conducted as an open standards-setting activity. Specifically, NIST has requested that all interested parties identify to NIST any patents or inventions that may be required for the use of AES. NIST hereby gives public notice that it may seek redress under the antitrust laws of the United States against any party in the future who might seek to exercise patent rights against any user of AES that have not been disclosed to NIST in response to this request for information. === So, there is no worry. > > Anyone know who won yet? The NIST webcast page doesn't work. It is supposed to be announce on http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/, just keep refreshing the page. simos Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
