Hi Zooko,

Rather than strip it out, how about a #define: INCLUDE_INCUMBERED or
similar. This way, Crypto++ does not loose features, and folks such as
yourself can choose to gut the encumbered algorithms.

Jeff

On 6/5/09, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Folks:
>
>  I'm trying to get pycryptopp and Tahoe-LAFS into Fedora, and one tiny
>  little detail that I have to work-around is that MARS is patented.
>  Fedora already includes a version of Crypto++ 5.6.0 with mars.cpp
>  stripped out, so the only reason I even have to be aware of this
>  detail is that I included a copy of Crypto++ v5.6.0 inside the
>  pycryptopp source distribution, and now I suppose I need to remove
>  mars.cpp from that embedded copy.
>
>  Anyway, I was thinking that it might be nice to let Crypto++ be more
>  easily/more widely re-used by removing mars.cpp from the Crypto++
>  upstream.  I've never heard of anyone using MARS cipher, personally.
>  Have you?
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Zooko
>

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