Re: OCB blockcipher mode - is it allowed?

2016-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 08:54 +0200, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > > Only option 2 has the non-military restriction, and anything in Fedora would > > almost certainly fall under 1 or 3. So, I can't imagine there'd be a problem > > using the OCB patent in Fedora software. I'm actually not even sure why > >

Re: OCB blockcipher mode - is it allowed?

2016-08-28 Thread Igor Gnatenko
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Christopher wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 6:16 PM Igor Gnatenko wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have some questions about OCB[0] and it's usage in Fedora. >> >> I wanted to package pycryptodome[1] and found that they

Re: OCB blockcipher mode - is it allowed?

2016-08-27 Thread Christopher
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 6:16 PM Igor Gnatenko wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions about OCB[0] and it's usage in Fedora. > > I wanted to package pycryptodome[1] and found that they implement OCB > in their code. From my POV (completely without any legal knowledge) it >

OCB blockcipher mode - is it allowed?

2016-08-27 Thread Igor Gnatenko
Hi, I have some questions about OCB[0] and it's usage in Fedora. I wanted to package pycryptodome[1] and found that they implement OCB in their code. From my POV (completely without any legal knowledge) it seems that it's not completely free[2] as it's not allowed for military use. It seems to