On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:43:34AM -0400, Lucky Green wrote:
> Isn't GnuPG developed outside the US? In that case, why would they exclude
> RSA support? Either way, RSA support presumably won't be missing for long.
They exclude RSA support because the FSF are opposed to patented
alogorithms on ideological grounds rather than for any practical
reasons.
Although the RSA patent will expire there will still be issues with the
IDEA necessary for PGP2 support.
RSA or IDEA support is on the GPG site anyway.
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minutes. when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two
hours that's relativity. -- albert einstein
