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. I don't mean that as a knock against IDEA - it was a fine cipher for its time, but time has moved on. The only reason to use IDEA is if you want to be compatible with PGP 2 messages. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
