From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WQyWP-0001q7-Ax for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:26:01 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WQyWN-0000wM-VR for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:26:01 +0000 Received: from netbook (c107-70.i07-27.onvol.net [92.251.107.70]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lhgpl-1WwAPq0FhB-00msXS; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:25:51 -0400 Received: by netbook (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 361EA2E0B99; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:25:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by flare (hashcash-sendmail, from uid 1000); Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:25:43 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:25:42 +0100 From: Adam Back To: Mike Hearn Message-ID: <20140321122542.GA2686@netbook.cypherspace.org> References: <20140320121221.GA25052@netbook.cypherspace.org> <20140321105906.GA1725@netbook.cypherspace.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Hashcash: 1:20:140321:mike@plan99.net::jTrvOiqd+u3XSg9Z:005wV3 X-Hashcash: 1:20:140321:andreas@schildbach.de::wterZ2Y17IaVIbfh:0000000000000000 0000000000000000000000002tdM X-Hashcash: 1:20:140321:bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net::u554cE3rItrl0 Qc/:000000000000000000003p+7 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:f/NH8AZy24Z52FpztwAjBT27glpZT7zeRWeobY4Am1T +Y0AJasxopJqnOg/E6EGfH+OGJ1dLPH8O7TEq08w0XSQTabgTC FsiLqrKNrObtIAKn879gvZ4xanFDWTxzpm1p6eTPwLuLM9+BcS 5Hf+zbYA0JoG+0l5+/40rNtDRJahkYTPVyDbCFOK+oQeQfLDI0 x5H3/JSkU5dy4YTmN+o7JOxwppyGuTE4WsscMon4aDzEVRGHO4 13ZJ4+QHnm7SxHuurwsa/NX85sirdmCVZTBDp6so5E9X0OEswP 4F6p+RTOchM2gHl6JFrXPzp2kT9qgUcCjo4DcuF0B3rDXFbkyh z0mMOjUjkNXoIyZXP67pC89E7PvLmg2Ojy82FNraT X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [74.208.4.194 listed in list.dnswl.org] -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record X-Headers-End: 1WQyWN-0000wM-VR Cc: Bitcoin Dev , Andreas Schildbach Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol for Face-to-face Payments X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:26:01 -0000 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.