[mosh-devel] OCB reference implementation ARM assembly

[Keith Winstein]

Thanks Phil! I think the patent grant is fine as far as we're
concerned, but I'll let you know if we could use something else...

Best regards,
Keith

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Phillip Rogaway <rogaway at cs.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for passing on that news.
>
> I see that a couple people question the choice of OCB:
>
>> ocb is patented... although the author claims it is "currently" free for
>> gpl code. What are you guys thinking? At least only supporting one protocol
>> is not that good.
>>>
>>> I was very surprised at the use of OCB and not one of the other more
>>> widely-used authenticated encryption modes like EAX or GCM.
>
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> If there's anything I can provide in this direction, just let me
> know.  (Of course there is no "currently" in the patent grant; maybe I need
> to throw in a "permanently" or "irrevokable" somewhere.)
>
> Good luck with your distribution! phil
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> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Keith Winstein wrote:
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>> Thought you both might like to see that mosh has apparently gone viral
>> today (somebody posted it to Hacker News before we were quite ready).
>>
>> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819382 (some discussion of OCB in
>> the comments...)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Keith
>>
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