Re: Reading PGP with GPG

[Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>]

Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:

>   That would explain the disappearance of the idea package. Are there
>   any other steps that I could that would allow me to read my friend's
>   email besides having him switch to gnupg?

README.idea reads:

| Due to patent problems we do not keep the idea.c file any longer here on
| this server.   If you are in a country where the distribution is allowed,
| you might want to get it from its new distribution server; however we
| suggest to avoid this algorithm entirely due to interoperability problems.
| 
| For information on the dangers of softwarepatents, please visit the website
| 
|         http://www.noepatents.org
| 
| The new URLs are:
| 
|   http://www.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c
|   http://www.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c.sig
| 
| Thanks.

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