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Sued for using HTTPS: Big brands told to cough up in crypto patent fight

  • 1 December 2015
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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Sony, Macy's, GoPro, hotels, insurance giants, anyone with money accused of infringement

 
                                     


 
1 Dec 2015 at 01:12, Shaun Nichols
 
Scores of big brands – from AT&T and Yahoo! to Netflix, GoPro and Macy's – are being sued because their HTTPS websites allegedly infringe an encryption patent.
 
It appears in May this year CryptoPeak Solutions, based in Longview, Texas, got its hands on US Patent 6,202,150, which describes "auto-escrowable and auto-certifiable cryptosystems."
 
CryptoPeak reckons TLS-secured websites that use elliptic curve cryptography are infringing the patent – so it's suing owners of HTTPS websites that use ECC. Top tip: loads of websites use ECC these days to securely encrypt their traffic.
 
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You have to wonder if these big boys like Netflix and Macy's knew what they were doing and made out big time in the money game.
nic
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He's pulling the tiger by the tail for sure, this patent troll. That's some big names he's picking on, and they might just decide to fight it.

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