On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:38 PM Nico Williams <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 02:22:49PM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> The other reason for bringing it into IRTF is that we really do need a
> clear IPR regime or else things can get ugly and efforts can stall.
I hope by now everyone understands that patent IPR on crypto == 20 year
kiss of death. That explains a great deal of our collective habit of
waiting 20+ years to make use of new primitives -- it certainly does for
PAKEs, for example. Of course, for some that might be a feature.
+1
I follow the expiry of patents pretty closely. The Mesh uses crypto that was patent encumbered until very recently.
A feature I have not yet added to the Mesh messaging layer but plan to add is Micali's simultaneous contracts.
