IPR Details
Phillip Rogaway's Statement about IPR related to draft-krovetz-ocb-03 belonging to VDG, Inc.

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Submitted: February 19, 2012 under the rules in RFC 3979 as updated by RFC 4879.

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I. Possible Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")

Holder legal name VDG, Inc.

II. Contact Information for the IETF Participant Whose Personal Belief Triggered this Disclosure

Name Phillip Rogaway
Email rogaway@cs.ucdavis.edu
Other info

Professor
1212 Purdue Dr
Davis, CA 95616 USA
T: +1 530 753 0987

III. IETF Document or Other Contribution to Which this IPR Disclosure Relates

Internet-Draft:
draft-krovetz-ocb ("The OCB Authenticated-Encryption Algorithm")
Revisions:
03

IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 3979 as updated by RFC 4879

A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications, please provide the following information:

Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File number(s)

US Patent #6,973,187
Date: Dec 6, 2005
Country: USA

Notes: * The inventors on this patent are Virgil D Gligor (a professor at CMU), and Pompiliu Donescu.

* This third-party disclosure is not an assertion that the claims of the cited patent read against OCB; I am simply disclosing all patents related to authenticated encryption that I am aware of (mine, Gligor’s, and Jutla’s).

* See http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb for up-to-date information.

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending No

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