Hi,
is the IDEA algorithm licensed? Under which conditions am I allowed to use
the idea extension in a commercial product?
cheers
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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
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
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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,
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
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
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
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,
*