On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:37:10PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Er, what algorithms used by PGP are still patent-restricted?
IDEA -- http://www.media-crypt.com/engl/Content/patent_info.htm
That being said, you shouldn't be using this anyway. The gnupg
extension works, but I don't believe it's maintained faithfully. The
ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/contrib/README.idea reads as follows:
idea.c - The GnuPG IDEA plugin.
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:
ftp://ftp.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c.gz
ftp://ftp.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c.gz.sig
Thanks.
Happy signing,
--
Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/
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