It's just that in crypto, software patents serve only to kill off a technology. Unless the owners are prepared to give away a worldwide, no-fee license, you can't implement it in free software so you can't put it in standards. If the Internet is to have faster ciphers than Rijndael in CTR mode, researchers will have to stop salting the earth on interesting new avenues of research.
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Date: 2002-02-03 03:27 pm (UTC)