[p2p-hackers] SHA1 broken?

[Alex Pankratov]

Paul Campbell wrote:

> 2. Go to a completely different type of cipher. The choices right now are
> either digital signatures via elliptic curves, ...

By the way - is ECC patented ? I heard Sun had some activity around
ECC patents, Certicom has patents for a curve selection algorithms,
but is core ECC patented ? Or rather - is it in public domain or not ?

I am seriously considering ECDSA as a replacement for RSA as it
seems to be significantly faster for the same crypto strength.