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Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by samzenpus on from the pay-up dept.

yoink! writes: According to an article in The Register, corporations big and small are coming under legal fire from CryptoPeak. The Company holds U.S. Patent 6,202,150, which describes "auto-escrowable and auto-certifiable cryptosystems" and has claimed that the Elliptic Curve Cryptography methods/implementations used as part of the HTTPS protocol violates their intellectual property. Naturally, reasonable people disagree.

2 of 130 comments (clear)

  1. Twats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a bunch of patent trolling twats.

  2. Re:When will enough be enough? by Jack+Griffin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Someone needs to patent "Things that do stuff" and be done with it.