Intuit Beats SSL Patent Troll That Defeated Newegg 59
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from the better-late-than-never dept.
from the better-late-than-never dept.
Last fall, Newegg lost a case against patent troll TQP for using SSL with RC4, despite arguments from Diffie of Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Intuit was also targeted by a lawsuit for infringing the same patent, and they were found not to be infringing. mpicpp (3454017) sends this excerpt from Ars: U.S. Circuit Judge William Bryson, sitting "by designation" in the Eastern District of Texas, has found in a summary judgment ruling (PDF) that the patent, owned by TQP Development, is not infringed by the two defendants remaining in the case, Intuit Corp. and Hertz Corp. In a separate ruling (PDF), Bryson rejected Intuit's arguments that the patent was invalid.
Not a complete victory (a clearly bogus patent is still not invalidated), but it's a start.
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It is not of high quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#Security
http://threatpost.com/attack-exploits-weakness-rc4-cipher-decrypt-user-sessions-031413/77628
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/11/12/security-advisory-2868725-recommendation-to-disable-rc4.aspx
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/03/new_rc4_attack.html
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2164421/security/potential-weakness-in-ssl-tls-security-downplayed-by-certificate-group.html
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