anyone recall the story behind Schnorr signatures not being widely adopted? was it because of patents?

IMO if the Zama patents are allowed to stand, then FHE is effectively removed from the hands of OS devs. Sure research could continue in "non-commercial spaces" but like what's the motivation for a researcher to dedicate their life's work to this.

Anna Rose

anyone recall the story behind Schnorr signatures not being widely adopted? was it because of patents? 

https://x.com/annarrose/status/1870137037572964569?s=46

Interested in ZK, FHE, PUFs, hardware, system design, ai safety, and smart contact security.

i believe this is the official statement 

https://x.com/randhindi/status/1870106715829444873?s=46

What did Zama patent? Doesn't seem like a good look tbh

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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so, software patents indeed damage the whole ecosystem

My impression is that ECDSA is widely used because of the Schnorr patent