David Shaw wrote: > Whether this means IDEA is okay or not patent-wise, I have a slightly > different take on this: who cares about IDEA at this point? IDEA was > good back in the 90s and PGP 2.x. It's 2009 now, and we have better > ciphers than IDEA, a massive installed software base that doesn't use > IDEA, and nobody is suffering for the lack of IDEA. If IDEA was > suddenly not patented, none of this would change.
Some people use remailers and other tools which depend on PGP 2.6/RFC1991 traffic. There are some people who would very much like to see GnuPG fully support RFC1991 so it can replace the very long in the tooth PGP 2.6. Admittedly, I think the correct response is to say, "GnuPG /did/ replace PGP 2.6, the same way RFC4880 replaced RFC1991, now come into the 21st century with the rest of us." But many of the die-hard PGP 2.6 advocates resist changing. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users