[Ach] (slightly off topic but) good article on Arstechnica on crypto patents and patent trolls

L. Aaron Kaplan kaplan at cert.at
Tue Nov 26 17:40:40 CET 2013


On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Aaron Zauner <azet at azet.org> wrote:

> In case you’re wondering - Newegg lost the trial: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/jury-newegg-infringes-spangenberg-patent-must-pay-2-3-million/
> 
> 

this is - in our sense - *fantastic* news since this now gets management attention at all large companies which deploy RC4 for consumers. "If you don't want to be sued by TQP (the patent troll), then you need to upgrade to better stuff.
RC4, R.I.P. due to patent trolls.


(sorry, german)
http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Newegg-verliert-Patentstreit-zu-RC4-Verschluesselung-2053971.html


> On 26 Nov 2013, at 15:08, L. Aaron Kaplan <kaplan at cert.at> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> '"We've heard a good bit in this courtroom about public key encryption," said Albright. "Are you familiar with that?"
>> 
>> "Yes, I am," said Diffie, in what surely qualified as the biggest understatement of the trial.'
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>> 
>> ;-)
>> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-trial-crypto-legend-diffie-takes-the-stand-to-knock-out-patent/
>> 
>> Very interesting article in case you have a little bit of time to read it.
>> 
>> a.
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