Subject: Re: Progress on ++æ v2.0 From: Francisco Recacha Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:53:19 -0700 (PDT) To: crypto-competitions@googlegroups.com Message-Id: Dear all as required by CAESAR rules, hereby I notify that I have formally withdrawn all the patent claims covering all the ++æ variants so far published either offically as CAESAR candidates (i.e. versions 1.1 and 1.2) or in my blog as v2.0 candidates (http://inputoutputblockchaining.blogspot.com). Moreover, to the knowledge of the author, no one of them is covered by any other IPR restriction. Thus, anyone willing to further develop any of them, or to use, is free to do so (and welcome). Cheers!