Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:25:42 +0100
From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
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Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>,
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol for Face-to-face Payments
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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.