[Battlemesh] Openwrt Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)

Henning Rogge hrogge at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 18:36:43 UTC 2015


On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:36 PM, cmsv <cmsv at wirelesspt.net> wrote:
> Since we can now enable ECC on openwrt for specific services, here is
> something that may be of interest reading.
>
> http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/patent-troll-https-encryption.html
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/01/cryptopeak_sues_
>
> http://gizmodo.com/websites-are-being-sued-for-infringing-an-https-encrytp-1745433175
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents
>
> The question now is if this issue cause any problems with mesh
> communities using Elliptic Curve Cryptography in their firmware as well
> as any enterprises doing the same in their products ?

If we worry about Freifunk every times some Patent Troll sues someone
about something that might also relate to Freifunk we would never stop
worrying.

Henning Rogge


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