About a project to make gnupg2 ISO/IEC 19790 compliant

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Fri Jan 29 13:21:47 CET 2010


Daiki Ueno <ueno at unixuser.org> writes:

> However, I have a question about PSS.  According to the Appendix D of
> PKCS#1 (RFC3447), the University of California claims the patent for
> PSS.  What do you think about this?

Interesting, I hadn't noticed that.  I'll defer to Werner on this, but
personally I think it makes sense for FSF to look into this from a legal
point of view.  Btw, IETF's patent disclosure page did not indicate this
issue, so I have filed a third-party notification about it.

/Simon



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