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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.
[...]
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
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. There
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.
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.
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
On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:25 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
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
