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Re: GnuPG can not read some pgp signatures



2004. január 06. 19:17 dátummal J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ezt írta:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 19:06:50 +0100, LeVA wrote:
> > But there are not any gpg-idea packages anywhere.
>
> IDEA is patent encumbered in much of Europe, including The
> Netherlands where non-us.debian.org is hosted and apparently Germany
> where ftp.gnupg.org is hosted (AFAIK).
>
> > On the www.gnupg.org site, there aren't any info about this plugin.
>
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/contrib/README.idea leads you to
> 	ftp://ftp.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c.gz

A quote from that .c file:

"however we suggest to avoid this algorithm entirely due to 
interoperability problems."

Then it is not about my wrong configuration, or my problem if I can not 
use those signatures, right? This is the other partner's problem, that 
he/she uses an algorithm, which is not international?

Am I right?

Daniel

> and
> 	ftp://ftp.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c.gz.sig
>
> Comments in the .c file explain how to build/use it.
>
> HTH,
> Ray
> --
> "Text processing doesn't matter."  Fortran.
> 	Larry Wall on common fallacies of language design

-- 
LeVA



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