I very strongly disagree. Crypto patents are actively poisonous for engineering, for research and development, and you should feel bad for cheerleading them. T

I very strongly disagree. Crypto patents are actively poisonous for engineering, for research and development, and you should feel bad for cheerleading them. The RSA patent pretty much delayed the adoption of public-key cryptography by circa 20 years; ECC patents, even though many are now expiring, some are still delaying it, and patents were the main reason for the SECP/NIST curve derivation being so very opaque. Patents on some ideal lattice schemes will likely delay their adoption, too. Algorithms should not be patentable.