# Re: DSS/DSA "patented" - licensing restricted?

Li Gong (gong@games.eng.sun.com)
Sun, 10 Aug 1997 18:07:24 -0700

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    Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 18:07:24 -0700

    Message-Id: <199708110107.SAA03015@games.eng.sun.com>

    From: Li Gong <gong@games.eng.sun.com>

    To: Brian Vetter <bjv@motivesoft.com>

    Subject: Re: DSS/DSA "patented" - licensing restricted?

    In-Reply-To: Brian Vetter's mail of Sun, 10 August, 1997

Brian Vetter writes:
> Please forgive me if this question has been raised and answered:
>
> I ran across a document that suggested that NIST was/has patented DSS
> (ie DSA) and will/had turned the patent over to PKP which would allow
> free personal, non-commercial, or government use. Any other use would
> require a license with PKP?

NIST has put the DSS patent/application "in the public domain" so that
anyone can practice it without paying anyone else a penny. PKP does
not exist anymore, as it was dissolved a year or two back.

Li

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