On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:13, Rick Moen wrote: > Just attempting to fill in missing detail: PGP first used for its > symmetric cipher Zimmerman's own amateur effort "Bass-o-Matic", which > was quickly dropped and replaced with the IDEA algorithm. IDEA is > patent encumbered (and will remain that way for some years, yet). > > GnuPG lacks IDEA support. It was included for a while as an optional > module, but has bene removed from the tarball. (You can find it and > retrofit it, if you search a bit.) > That and the lingering IDEA problem (limiting only compatiblity with > some PGP 2.x users) are all I'm aware of. PGPi, unlike GnuPG, _does_ > include IDEA code by default. > I wrote something about IDEA and gnupg a while ago. It's a quick blurb for people who wanted to use IDEA but weren't entirely sure how to do it: http://yak.net/fqa/346.html It's nothing special, but if you were wondering how, it's not very difficult. Enjoy. -- Jake Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>
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