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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>,
	Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach•de>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol for Face-to-face Payments
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:07:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP2ohPfyZ_u9boS_3MEgE67-hW3GgpWc8xxdOeh9EKQP9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140321122542.GA2686@netbook.cypherspace.org>

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Maybe so, but given the relatively minor advantages of ECC certs I can see
why a CA might not want to take any risks. They are sitting ducks for
patent trolls.

I think ECC will still happen, though we end up back into NSA fear
territory thanks to the stupid way secp256r1 was defined. *Hopefully* there's
no back door.


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adam Back <adam@cypherspace•org> wrote:

> According to Bernstein it's patent FUD (expired, ancient and solid prior
> art).
>
> http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-August/005126.html
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:33:57PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
>
>>   Oh, one other reason I found - apparently RIM, at least in the past,
>>   has been telling CA's that they need to pay mad bux for the Certicom
>>   ECC patents. So that's another reason why most certs are still using
>>   RSA.
>>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-21 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-27 11:59 Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 13:11 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-27 18:18   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 18:34     ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-27 20:53     ` [Bitcoin-development] Experiment with linking payment requests via href Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 21:47       ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-27 17:11 ` [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol for Face-to-face Payments Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-27 17:39   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 18:18     ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-27 20:34   ` Roy Badami
2014-01-29 14:57     ` Christophe Biocca
2014-01-30 10:46 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-30 10:50   ` Mike Hearn
2014-02-07 23:15   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-02  9:47 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-02 11:50   ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-20  2:22     ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-20  3:31       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-20  8:09         ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-20 10:36           ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-20 12:12             ` Adam Back
2014-03-20 12:20               ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-20 17:31               ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-20 17:42                 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-20 18:01                   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-21 10:28                 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 13:59                   ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-22 16:35                     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-22 16:45                       ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-22 16:55                       ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-03-22 17:24                         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-22 17:30                           ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-23  3:47                             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21 10:25               ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 10:59                 ` Adam Back
2014-03-21 11:08                   ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-21 11:33                     ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-21 12:25                       ` Adam Back
2014-03-21 13:07                         ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-03-20 18:20             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-20 18:31               ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-20 18:50                 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-20 21:52                 ` Roy Badami
2014-03-20 23:02                   ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-26 22:48                     ` Roy Badami
2014-03-26 22:56                       ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-26 23:20                         ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-27 10:08                           ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-27 13:31                             ` vv01f
2014-06-30 19:26                               ` Alex Kotenko
2014-07-01  8:18                                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-01  9:48                                   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-01 10:42                                     ` Michael Wozniak
2014-07-01 13:03                                       ` Alex Kotenko
2014-07-01 14:59                                         ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-01 15:07                                           ` Michael Wozniak
2014-07-01 15:39                                             ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-01 17:18                                               ` Alex Kotenko
2014-07-01 17:59                                                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-02  8:49                                                   ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21 10:43                   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-20  8:08       ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-20 16:14         ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21  9:47           ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 13:54             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21 14:51               ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 15:38                 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21 15:20               ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 15:24                 ` Mike Hearn

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