Bug#391770: RFP: libbotan -- C++ crypto library
James Westby wrote:
> There was some discussion the other day about patent issues surrounding
> the IDEA, and RC family of ciphers.
Since botan is modular, IDEA can be split out (I didn't looked about RC,
but I think it is similar there). If they have to splitted out, we have
to do our own, Debian specific, version of the library
(libbotan-dfsg-$version.so) to not conflict to the non-stripped one).
> This package includes
> implementations of these ciphers. Should there be some consideration of
> these issues? Will this happen on the trip through the NEW queue?
cc'ing Joerg who does NEW processing, so ftp-team is informed.
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