Sure, I'm with you there. I was surprised to learn that NSA held patents at all. It looks like NSA bought their ECC patents (the ones they license on the forel

Sure, I'm with you there. I was surprised to learn that NSA held patents at all. It looks like NSA bought their ECC patents (the ones they license on the forelinked ECC PLA page) from Certicom. I'm still confused as to why NSA would buy a portfolio of patents and then license them restrictively (albeit at no cost). Just seems a weird thing for a govt agency to do. Not suspicious or nefarious. Just weird.