thanks for the comments! Luckily there are still a few algorithms if NTRU is not good yet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography As time goes, maybe this will be a more and more relevant thing. -------- Original Message -------- From: Okembe Mbwambo <[email protected]> Apparently from: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: OpenBSD/NTRU policy mismatch [Was: NTRU Open Source Project / Post-quantum era] Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:50:29 +0200 > On 25/05/15 02:50:50 PM, Douglas Ray wrote: > > > 2. The "FOSS exception" clause above won't help with existing > > OpenBSD policy, insofar as I understand it here: > > http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html > > [note section towards end on GPL under "Specific Cases"] > > FWIW, a BSD-licensed NTRU implementation exists at > https://github.com/tbuktu/libntru and while it is patent encumbered, it > offers a compile switch that causes it to become patent free in 2017 as > opposed to the GPL implementation which will be patent encumbered until 2020. > > Okembe
