Fwd: Re: RFE kmail with S/MIME

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Sat May 17 20:10:02 2003


On Sat, 17 May 2003 01:48:05 +0200, Ingo Klöcker said:

> I'm passing the ball to the Aegypten developers: Have the Aegypten 
> people obtained rights to use IBM patent 5953420? Do they know about 
> that IBM patent? Can an implementation of S/MIME be free considered 

We don't implement the DH key agreement method. 

Anyway, the DH key agreement patent expired in 1997.  Hmm, this is
patent no 4200770. I don't know what's up with 5953420.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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