Re: Java Source For Asymmetric Key Ciphers

wwhyte@gmail.com wrote:
> You may find the tutorials on the NTRU website helpful --
> http://www.ntru.com/cryptolab is the place to start.
>
> Note that we encourage people to develop and play with the algorithms
> themselves, but you may not distribute your implementation without a
> license from NTRU.

With that final note how many people use NTRU versus says RSA-PKCS or
ECC-X9.6X? :-)

Patents may make business sense but all they do is take a possibly
valid technology and make it moot. By time NTRU is available for the
public domain it'll be 2015 or so. At which point "smart cards" will
be ARM platforms [or other 32-bit platform] and ECC with prime curves
will be more than just fine in software, etc...

Tom
Received on Tue Jan 17 16:51:01 2006