Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 22:00, ab...@monksofcool.net said: > a) We're moving ever further off topic in terms of GnuPG. FWIW, given the low traffic on gnupg-users, I would consider this still to on topic. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

Am Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:00:20 +0100 schrieb Ralph Seichter : > Seriously, it strains my patience if participants in a discussion fail > to pay attention. O.k. understood and sorry for that i only wanted to point out the disadvantages of centralization etc. while there are are proper and proven

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

* Stefan Claas: > Well, mail in a "forum" like a Usenet group is there a prefered delivery > method, thanks to mail2news gateways. [...] a) We're moving ever further off topic in terms of GnuPG. b) Once again, the OP wrote about "an anonymous PGP messaging board". I happen to have created and

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

tually be enough. The OP presented his idea for "an anonymous > PGP messaging board", and such a messaging board could in all > likelihood be accessed using only the Tor Browser (I don't see a > reason for mail in a forum application). Providing this as an onion > service wo

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

> I think the mixmaster approach should be still in place also when you > use Tor, IMHO. I wrote "using the Tor Network as a foundation", but in this case it might actually be enough. The OP presented his idea for "an anonymous PGP messaging board", and such a messaging bo

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

Hi. Am 06-03-2019 17:57, schrieb Ralph Seichter: * Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users: Obviously this would not be the next big method of communication, but an interesting niche idea and it seems easy to produce a proof-of-concept. Not meaning to rain on your parade, but after mulling over your

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

* Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users: > Obviously this would not be the next big method of communication, but > an interesting niche idea and it seems easy to produce a proof-of-concept. Not meaning to rain on your parade, but after mulling over your idea, I don't see benefits over what can a

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

Am Wed, 6 Mar 2019 00:00:31 +0100 schrieb Stefan Claas : > You can read more about hsubs here: > > http://mixnym.net/hsub.html And to fetch hsub messages from alt.anonymous.messages: https://github.com/crooks/aam2mail Regards Stefan ___ Gnupg-users

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

Am Tue, 5 Mar 2019 16:53:30 -0500 schrieb Farhan Khan : > My issue with Usenet is two fold: > A. The post metadata of the sender is preserved in Usenet. > B. It is not easily searchable or filterable. However, the subject > hash idea is pretty interesting. Well, about

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

Hello Farhan, On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 02:39:37PM -0500, Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users wrote: > I had an idea for an anonymous PGP messaging board system and wanted to get > feedback on it or know if this idea has already been done. > > In short, this would be an anonymous messaging

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

Am Tue, 5 Mar 2019 21:01:57 +0100 schrieb Stefan Claas : > Solution 2 is use Bitmessage ... Solution 3 is to check out ZeroNet (via Tor), where people can also host their own message boards etc. Regards Stefan ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

Am Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:39:37 -0500 schrieb Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users : Hi, > Hi all, > > I had an idea for an anonymous PGP messaging board system and wanted > to get feedback on it or know if this idea has already been done. > > In short, this would be an anonymous messagin

PGP Anonymous Board Idea

Hi all, I had an idea for an anonymous PGP messaging board system and wanted to get feedback on it or know if this idea has already been done. In short, this would be an anonymous messaging system where you can post encrypted messages. Anyone can access the encrypted message but obviously only

Re: PGP 2.6.3 IDEA encryption

> I forgotten the password. Can most modern technology give me a > possibility to decrypt the files? No. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

PGP 2.6.3 IDEA encryption

Hi! I have some files which was encrypted with PGP 2.6.3. The encryption algorithm was IDEA. I forgotten the password. Can most modern technology give me a possibility to decrypt the files? Best regards: Egon ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg

Re: plaintext non-ssl distribution - who things this is a good idea?

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:05, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > (Getting an Authenticode certificate, for instance.) Yeah, when testing the installer I always see that annoying "unknown issuer" warning. Thus it is probably a good idea to silence this warning by signing the installer. I ne

Re: plaintext non-ssl distribution - who things this is a good idea?

Hi all, On Friday 11 September 2015 at 00:15:51, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Thu 2015-09-10 18:05:35 -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > >> Who else thinks someone should spring for the $10 it would take to > >> buy and install an SSL certificate for the principal distribution > >> point of gpg

Re: plaintext non-ssl distribution - who things this is a good idea?

Hi, The OP is continuing to "spam" the bug tracker . For the record: OP: [Claims of linking FTP mirrors which are not secure and to the known problem of the non-https gpg4win site.] me: This has nothing to do with gnupg.org. And if you have

Re: plaintext non-ssl distribution - who things this is a good idea?

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:05, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > (Getting an Authenticode certificate, for instance.) FWIW, the Gpg4win installer is code signed. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___

Re: plaintext non-ssl distribution - who things this is a good idea?

> Who else thinks someone should spring for the $10 it would take to > buy and install an SSL certificate for the principal distribution > point of gpg and it's signatures on the worlds most popular > platform? There are many better ways for Werner to spend his time and money. (Getting an

Re: plaintext non-ssl distribution - who things this is a good idea?

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 01:07:52 +1000, cow...@anon.im stated: > Who else thinks someone should spring for the $10 it would take to buy and > install an SSL certificate for the principal distribution point of gpg and > it's signatures on the worlds most popular platform? > >

Re: plaintext non-ssl distribution - who things this is a good idea?

On Thu 2015-09-10 18:05:35 -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Who else thinks someone should spring for the $10 it would take to >> buy and install an SSL certificate for the principal distribution >> point of gpg and it's signatures on the worlds most popular >> platform? > > There are many better

Re: plaintext non-ssl distribution - who things this is a good idea?

und bier On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > Who else thinks someone should spring for the $10 it would take to > > buy and install an SSL certificate for the principal distribution > > point of gpg and it's signatures on the worlds most popular >

plaintext non-ssl distribution - who things this is a good idea?

Who else thinks someone should spring for the $10 it would take to buy and install an SSL certificate for the principal distribution point of gpg and it's signatures on the worlds most popular platform? http://gpg4win.org/download.html http://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-2.2.6.exe

Re: gpg wants IDEA

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/11/2014 07:13 AM, James Moe wrote: Hello, I have an older gnuPG (v1.4.6) that is apparently mis-configured. When signing a message, it fails with a note about what a bad idea IDEA is, and quits. gpg is called from an email program

gpg wants IDEA

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have an older gnuPG (v1.4.6) that is apparently mis-configured. When signing a message, it fails with a note about what a bad idea IDEA is, and quits. gpg is called from an email program to perform security services. There is no command

Implementation idea of CURVE25519 for gnupg 2.1

Hi, There is GPL 3 based implementation of CURVE25519 called Pretty Curved Privacy (pcp1). http://www.daemon.de/PrettyCurvedPrivacy What do you think about using parts of the ppc1 source code to implement such functionality into gnupg 2.1?

Re: Implementation idea of CURVE25519 for gnupg 2.1

On Friday 15 November 2013 21:33:08 Mark Schneider wrote: Hi, There is GPL 3 based implementation of CURVE25519 called Pretty Curved Privacy (pcp1). http://www.daemon.de/PrettyCurvedPrivacy What do you think about using parts of the ppc1 source code to implement such functionality into

Re: Mail-Followup-To (was Re: IDEA License)

) I consider missing MFT handling a micro annoyance. I any case, I consider it a good idea to explicitly add a To: header to notify the addressee that this particular mail gains his attention. Yup BTW, exmh is a nice MUA I used a long time ago and only stopped using it because back

Re: IDEA License

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Julian H Stacey wrote: OK I added Ulrich M to cc He can add URL to wikipedia of expiry date of Japan IDEA paent if he wants, or I will if he mails it me. A dead patent is a good patent ;-) IANAL, TINLA, but the term of patent in Japan seems to be 20 years

Re: IDEA License

Peter Lebbing wrote: On 27/03/13 12:41, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Thanks Ulrich for your email below, It didn't make it to gnupg-users@gnupg.org to http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2013-March/date.html#end Posts by non-subscribers are moderated (held for approval by a

Mail-Followup-To (was Re: IDEA License)

On 27/03/13 14:40, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I created it, as far as I recall, from my copy direct from Ulrich, which had no Mail-Followup-To Correct, the problem originated when you replied[1] to Werner's mail[2]. Werner's mail had the following header: Mail-Followup-To: Julian H. Stacey

Re: IDEA License

Sorry, I sent the last mail only to Hubert. I was saying that Squeeze does not have in any of its repositories the versions that support IDEA: Max version of GnuPG is 1.4.12 http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gnupgsearchon=namesexact=1suite=allsection=all Max version of libgcrypt

Re: IDEA License

On 03/25/13 20:05, Jan Chaloupecky wrote: On Monday, March 25, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Werner Koch wrote: On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:00, chal...@gmail.com so the question is .. can I ship the idea shared object with my software? The idea.c contains the following comments. So if I understand it You need

Re: IDEA License

On 03/26/13 10:30, Jan Chaloupecky wrote: Sorry, I sent the last mail only to Hubert. I was saying that Squeeze does not have in any of its repositories the versions that support IDEA: Max version of GnuPG is 1.4.12 http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gnupgsearchon=namesexact

Re: IDEA License

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:38, j...@berklix.com said: So to wikipedia, after Japan I appended expired 2011-05-16 I could edit in an href'd citation to wikipedia, if URL known ? I don't know; the dates are by Ulrich Müller ulm at gentoo.org Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei.

Re: IDEA License

citation to wikipedia, if URL known ? I don't know; the dates are by Ulrich Müller ulm at gentoo.org OK I added Ulrich M to cc He can add URL to wikipedia of expiry date of Japan IDEA paent if he wants, or I will if he mails it me. A dead patent is a good patent ;-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey

IDEA License

Hi, is the IDEA algorithm licensed? Under which conditions am I allowed to use the idea extension in a commercial product? cheers -- Jan ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: IDEA License

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:46, chal...@gmail.com said: is the IDEA algorithm licensed? Under which conditions am I allowed to use the idea extension in a commercial product? I assume your question is: Is the IDEA algorithm patented? It was patented and this was one or the main reasons to develop

Re: IDEA License

Hi, is the IDEA algorithm licensed? Wrong question ! Try: copyright? patented? Under which conditions am I allowed to use the idea extension in a commercial product? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm#Availability Cheers, Julian -- Julian

Re: IDEA License

On 3/25/2013 12:01 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 25/03/13 14:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, is the IDEA algorithm licensed? Wrong question ! Try: copyright? patented? Copyright on an algorithm? Don't you mean a particular implementation of the algorithm? IOW: Wrong question

Re: IDEA License

On 25/03/13 20:06, Doug Barton wrote: He clarified that in a subsequent post. The usual netiquette is to read the entire thread before responding to any individual post. I see only one post by Julian H Stacey, and the web archive[1] agrees, so maybe you got a private mail? (But why?) Anyway, I

Re: IDEA License

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:00, chal...@gmail.com said: I have to use GnuPG 1.4.10 and a self compiled idea.c from here You better use 1.4.13. ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/gentoo/distfiles/idea.c.gz so the question is .. can I ship the idea shared object with my software? The idea.c

(OT) Re: IDEA License

On 25/03/13 20:49, Doug Barton wrote: Thus endeth the lesson, Yeah, after I wrote my reply, I wondered if it was even wise to fight fire with fire. So the lesson didn't come entirely unexpected. I respectfully disagree that the mail didn't warrant a reply at all. One could also simply point out

Re: IDEA License

Hi gnupg-users@gnupg.org cc Werner K. I wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm#Availability Werner posted: Meanwhile the patent expired: * Patents on IDEA have expired: * Europe: EP0482154 on 2011-05-16, * Japan: JP3225440 on 2011-05-16

GPG2 and IDEA

Hi, the short question is how do I enable the IDEA support in GPG2. I tried following this article: http://www.kfwebs.net/articles/article/42/GnuPG-2.0---IDEA-support but even the patching of the libcrypt source files does not work. Here's what I did: wget ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt

Re: GPG2 and IDEA

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:57, chal...@gmail.com said: wget ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.4.tar.bz2 That is a pretty old version. You should move to a decent one; at least 1.4.x or better the latest 1.5.1. There is no IDEA support there, regular support is only available

Re: GPG2 and IDEA

eventually be removed. */ break; Sure that you are not using 1.4? In this case 1.4.13 already includes idea support. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___ Gnupg-users

Re: GPG2 and IDEA

it dynamically in gpg: I doubt that. Looking at the 2.0 branch I see this in gpg.c: case oLoadExtension: /* Dummy so that gpg 1.4 conf files can work. Should eventually be removed. */ break; Sure that you are not using 1.4? In this case 1.4.13 already includes idea support. Shalom-Salam

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

All right, thanks! :) ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

Hello, On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:57, Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: Is there some particular reason why you send messages in an obfuscated format? how is that working anyway? Apparently GPG automatically decrypted those messages for me. How were they generated? What is that? :)

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

how is that working anyway? Apparently GPG automatically decrypted those messages for me. How were they generated? What is that? :) :compressed packet: algo=1 :onepass_sig packet: keyid 1E3B6A9CD77480F6 version 3, sigclass 0x00, digest 2, pubkey 1, last=1 :literal data packet: mode b

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

On 20-07-2011 12:31, Richard wrote: how is that working anyway? Apparently GPG automatically decrypted those messages for me. How were they generated? What is that? :) They were only signed, but not in plaintext but Base 64 encoded. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Johan Wevers

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-20 4:31 AM, Richard wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:57, Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: Is there some particular reason why you send messages in an obfuscated format? how is that working anyway? Apparently GPG

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

Looks like the answer to my question iz: Not legally. I was thinking that IDEA was more than ten years old, which I thot meant that the patent on it was expired. Silly me, though, looks like patent law changed for about seven more years of length. So, while I'm waiting for six months or whatever

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- To make a long story short. I created a key with jenuine pgp 10. I exported it with IDEA. I made gpg 1.2.2 work with IDEA. Making gpg 1.4.11 work with IDEA failed. I changed my pass-phrase using --crypt-algo CAST5 with 1.2.2. Now, enigmail works, so I am one

Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

-BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/gpg/Keyprint_Biometric.mp3.pgp owGbwMvMwMQoZ50153pJwzfGtYyTk7jTC9JLi1OL9EoqSvxU+rL8ixRS8hU8FfJS U1MUSvIVgHIKZalFxZn5eQqGeiZ6lvZAyeLEcoVEhdzU4uLE9FSQqpKMVIXUtLTU

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

On 18-07-2011 21:57, Jay Litwyn wrote: Or do I need to use version 1.4.9? I have no problem using idea.dll with 1.4.11. I didn't need to change anything to the config file, just the line load-extension c:\program files\gnu\gnupg\idea.dll with the correct path to idea.dll of course, and

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

1.4.11 to use idea. Including the following line in my gpg.conf file works here:- load-extension [PATH]\idea.dll Replace [PATH] with the actual path to your idea.dll file. I am using v1.4.11 under Windows XP. I don't normally use idea.dll but just tried and including that line still

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

On 18-07-2011 23:45, Jay Litwyn wrote: I tried that. Because I sometimes use gpg from the command line, my configuration line reads: load-extension c:\gnupg\idea.dll It doesn't work, even if I move gpg.conf to my pub directory: I still get invalid cipher from trying to decrypt my own

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

-BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/gpg/Keyprint_Biometric.mp3.pgp owGdVU2IHEUUTrLGnyUDOQlGlGcSSJb09Ez3TDabVhZndyaTibM7w86uy0oS6Omu 6S7T3dVUV2+nIWggsuIhIAkiUS/ecvEigoIgiAej3uLBnBQEDzEgXowGc/BV9f5E

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

Is there some particular reason why you send messages in an obfuscated format? That said: on Windows you can usually find it in %APPDIR%\Roaming\GnuPG, at least for Win 7. Otherwise, I'd suggest familiarizing yourself with Windows' facilities to search for a file by filename, and search

Re: IDEA Status?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 23 June 2010 at 5:35:19 AM, in mid:5154913f-ea7e-44ed-a67b-20c5e2998...@jabberwocky.com, David Shaw wrote: So it's still patented, [...] It's not even clear where you could get a license if you really had to use IDEA

Re: IDEA Status?

On 6/23/10 1:12 PM, MFPA wrote: I understood that for non-commercial use, IDEA was freely available for use and that licences were only needed for commercial use in the countries where it is patented. Sure, but that makes it incompatible with the GPL -- and that incompatibility puts some

Re: IDEA Status?

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 6/22/10 10:09 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Is this very old and it's now supported? Or is it still not in for some other reason (either oversight, legal, or other). By modern standards, IDEA is not considered a promising cipher

Re: IDEA Status?

On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:09 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: The FAQ for IDEA states that The official GnuPG distribution does not contain IDEA due to a patent restriction. The patent does not expire before 2007 so don't expect official support before then. (http://gnupg.org

Re: IDEA Status?

On 6/22/10 10:30 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Could the FAQ be updated then, assuming you speak with some authority? I am correct, but I am not authoritative. I'm not one of the GnuPG developers, so I have no authority to make declarations on behalf of GnuPG.

Re: IDEA Status?

On 6/22/10 10:39 PM, David Shaw wrote: I'm not sure about the 2007 patent expiration - I recall it being right around now, actually (2010-2011). A little digging around revealed the United States patent expiration: January 7, 2012. I am not a patent attorney, I don't pretend to be an

Re: IDEA Status?

for compatibility with a very deprecated key type and codebase. It's not even clear where you could get a license if you really had to use IDEA. The mediacrypt.com site where you can get a license was offline for a long time. It's back online now (and goes to the Nagra/Kudelski page, which may be amusing

Help adding IDEA within GnuPG 2.0.9

Hi group, I am trying to include support for IDEA within GnuPG 2.0.9 running under Linux. I have downloaded the idea.c module via the link on this page: http://www.gnupg.org/faq/why-not-idea.html, have compiled it and have added the load-extension path-to-idea/idea statement to my conf

Re: How to NOT Use IDEA?

Hello Bill ! Bill House bhouse1...@gmail.com wrote: The showpref on the key does not mention IDEA, which leaves me also with no idea how IDEA is in the mix. Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES Digest: SHA256, SHA1, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP

Re: How to NOT Use IDEA?

The initial install had written a gpg.conf file that seems to have been the problem. I replaced it with a new gpg.conf that has the default-key set to the new keyid I made and the problem is solved. Thanks to all for the help! Bill House ___

How to NOT Use IDEA?

Surely this is a newbie question, but I have been trying for some time to get GPG to create a signed and encrypted file. Not wanting to go through the whole recompile thing and not caring to use the IDEA cipher, it seems to me that GPG should simply work by default. Sadly, it does not seem

Re: How to NOT Use IDEA?

On Apr 13, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Bill House wrote: Surely this is a newbie question, but I have been trying for some time to get GPG to create a signed and encrypted file. Not wanting to go through the whole recompile thing and not caring to use the IDEA cipher, it seems to me that GPG should

Re: How to NOT Use IDEA?

On 4/13/2010 4:06 PM, Bill House wrote: I created a new RSA/RSA 2048 key in my keyring. So long as I only want to encrypt, it works fine. When I want to encrypt AND sign, it complains that I need the IDEA algorithm. When I specify the cipher-algo, it either claims the cipher is invalid

Re: How to NOT Use IDEA?

The showpref on the key does not mention IDEA, which leaves me also with no idea how IDEA is in the mix. Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES Digest: SHA256, SHA1, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify Bill

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

David Shaw wrote: If the some people still want this, I haven't seen it in a good long while. Possibly they gave up asking. Probably. However, if someone wants IDEA support for whatever reason there is still the IDEA plugin. It still works with GnuPG 1.4.10 for both Linux and Windows

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

On Sep 21, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Johan Wevers wrote: David Shaw wrote: If the some people still want this, I haven't seen it in a good long while. Possibly they gave up asking. Probably. However, if someone wants IDEA support for whatever reason there is still the IDEA plugin. It still

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

Gentlemen, I really appreciate the comments you've made on the subject and the little debates as well. That was exactly what I was expecting. Sometimes, regular users do not have the proper notion of whether some functionality merits attention. All in all, it looks like IDEA, even if totally

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

. All in all, it looks like IDEA, even if totally freed, is sentenced to gradual abandonment. Is this perception of mine correct? In my opinion, yes. These days, you'd need a good reason to use IDEA rather than AES, CAST5, or even 3DES. When you add in the fact that IDEA actually costs money

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

M.B.Jr. wrote: All in all, it looks like IDEA, even if totally freed, is sentenced to gradual abandonment. Is this perception of mine correct? It is more accurate to say it has already been abandoned. Very few people today use IDEA as a symmetric cipher for OpenPGP messages

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

Message: 2 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:40:02 -0400 From: David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com If the some people still want this, I haven't seen it in a good long while. Possibly they gave up asking. as an old-time pgp 2.x user, have often put the question to some of the die-hard remailer 2.6

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

ved...@hush.com wrote: if only there were a gnupg mini-version with a shorter source-code, (or at least one that's readable by someone looking at it from scratch, not just reading the updates and patches as they go along) then i'd gladly switch This is doable. I did this in '99 for GnuPG

IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

really interested in reading your opinions of what this could mean to optional OpenPGP ciphers like IDEA. Regards, Marcio Barbado, Jr. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

M.B.Jr. wrote: I've recently had access to this document, written by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which basically tries to ban software patents. The memorandum in question is eight pages, twenty slides and two flowcharts. As a ballpark estimate that would mean it

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

-25_interim_101_instructions.pdf the case is, I'm really interested in reading your opinions of what this could mean to optional OpenPGP ciphers like IDEA. 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

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

On Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at 12:46PM, Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: M.B.Jr. wrote: I've recently had access to this document, written by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which basically tries to ban software patents. The memorandum in question is

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

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

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

David Shaw wrote: If the some people still want this, I haven't seen it in a good long while. Possibly they gave up asking. Gave up the asking, more likely. I still get one or two emails a year inquiring about if/when GnuPG will support this. (No, I don't know why they email me, and I wish

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

On Sep 16, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: 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

GPG2 - IDEA

Ok, I've finally managed to compile the gpg2 package (the stable package, not svn) with cygwin. Is there a way to add idea support to gpg2 or is this feature not supported? Thanks -- Kevin Hilton ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: Doe MediaCrypt (IDEA) exist anymore?

Thanks, unfortunately I have to decrypt some legacy apps files that does use IDEA. David Shaw wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:08:48AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to use GnuPG with older keys using IDEA. This is for commecial use. I see that for commercial use, we

Re: Doe MediaCrypt (IDEA) exist anymore?

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I need to use GnuPG with older keys using IDEA. This is for commecial use. I see that for commercial use, we need to purchase a license from It doesn't matter how you use it, that algorithm is patented in most countries and thus it does

Doe MediaCrypt (IDEA) exist anymore?

Hi, I need to use GnuPG with older keys using IDEA. This is for commecial use. I see that for commercial use, we need to purchase a license from MediaCrypt? But they do not seem to have a web sight anymore. What do I do now? Where can I purchase the IDEA license? Thaks Rob -- View

Re: Doe MediaCrypt (IDEA) exist anymore?

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:08:48AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to use GnuPG with older keys using IDEA. This is for commecial use. I see that for commercial use, we need to purchase a license from MediaCrypt? But they do not seem to have a web sight anymore. What do I do

1.4.9 (IDEA not working?)

have installed gnupg 1.4.9 using the windows binary, and IDEA no longer loads have tried this again on a usb drive, replacing all the gnupg 1.4.8 files with 1.4.9 files, but leaving the idea.dll, gpg.conf, keyrings and trust db the same as they were for 1.4.8 and even tested it before

1.4.9 IDEA still works,// sorry, my mistake

sorry, a silly oversight on my part, ;-(( IDEA loads fine on 1.4.9 vedaal any ads or links below this message are added by hushmail without -- Click to recieve credit card help and get out of debt fast. http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/REAK6ZBOk4NIwhYiT5hHUXjgn2GYzFMx1ahERXmgLhbVQ6NHRxQfyn/ my

IDEA not always working in GNUPG

Hi, I occasionally receive messages encrypted by older PGP versions that are not being decrypted by GNUPG 1.4.7 [scrubbed] gpg filename gpg: assuming IDEA encrypted data Enter passphrase: [scrubbed] gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=67) gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected

IDEA?

Didn't IDEA's patent expire last year? I notice it's still not in the list unless I load it by hand. Is there something else preventing it from being used? Maury ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: IDEA?

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:51:13AM -0500, Maury Markowitz wrote: Didn't IDEA's patent expire last year? I notice it's still not in the list unless I load it by hand. Is there something else preventing it from being used? It's patented until 2010 (2011 in some places). IDEA is effectively dead

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