Hi!
Let me state it again: There is no IDEA support for GnuPG - there has never been any support - the reason to write GnuPG was due to the IDEA and RSA patents. Even after 2010 (or whatever the patent stuff says) there will be no IDEA support - IDEA is OBSOLETE, it is an old cipher algorithm with a 64 blocksize which is not sufficient for todays amounts of data. OpenPGP provides a preferences system which takes care that nobody with a sane mind will use IDEA for any encryption. Granted: There are probably a few people out there with IDEA encrypted files - but those folks still have a copy of pgp-2 and know about the IDEA problems. If they want to drop pgp-2 they should just re-encrypt their stuff. And actually they should really drop use pgp-2 because it requires the use of MD5 and thus all public keys can't be relied upon anymore if the Web of Trust is used. FWIW, there is an idea.c file floating somewhere around and there is some limited support in the code to use it. That file stems from my first experiments with gpg (at that time called g10) and was never intended to go wth gpg, proper - it was and is reasearch only. There is no need to include any support for it in Debian. I habe been threatened by MediaCrypt in the past to buy and announce an IDEA license for gpg. I am not willing to give them any chance to threaten the users of GnuPG by stating that we have any kind of real support for IDEA. And thus the only change to published information might be to entirely remove all mentioning of IDEA. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
