Re: Re: Does the SCM SCR3320 work with GnuPG?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Lebbing
Florian Schüttler wrote: > If it is a v2 card as you mentioned earlier you should try using GnuPG > 1.4.10. > I had pretty much the same issues with a PC/SC reader (ReinerSCT cyberjack > ecom plus) on Debian Lenny (1.4.9-3+lenny1) until I tried 1.4.10 with which > there were no problems, except

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-16 Thread David Shaw
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 ID

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-16 Thread Robert J. Hansen
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 wis

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-16 Thread Robert J. Hansen
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'

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-16 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
On Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at 12:46PM, "Robert J. Hansen" 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 eight p

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-16 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 16, 2009, at 1:56 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: Hi list, 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 is here: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/opla/2009-08-25_int

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-16 Thread Robert J. Hansen
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

IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-16 Thread M.B.Jr.
Hi list, 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 is here: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/opla/2009-08-25_interim_101_instructions.pdf the case is, I'm rea

Re: Does the SCM SCR3320 work with GnuPG?

2009-09-16 Thread Florian Schüttler
On Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009 Peter Lebbing wrote: > Peter Lebbing wrote: > Well, bit of a disappointment, but hopefully it can be fixed. It turned out > that the reader included with the new model MyKey is the SCT3511. It seems > like a nice device: it can also support hybrid cards and be used as a >

Re: Does the SCM SCR3320 work with GnuPG?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Lebbing
Peter Lebbing wrote: > I've just ordered the MyKey with the new model card reader. I'll report > whether it works when I have it. Well, bit of a disappointment, but hopefully it can be fixed. It turned out that the reader included with the new model MyKey is the SCT3511. It seems like a nice devic