2007/9/18, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There is a discussion over at the incubator general mailing list (e.g. > [1]), amongst other places, about the redistribution of BouncyCastle > code from ASF machines. > > The crux is that we can't redistribute BC's IDEA implementation as it is > subject to a known patent for which we don't have a grant/license. > > We'll have to change our current practice of publishing binaries that > include BC unmodified. The resolution seems to be maintaining a local > copy of the BC JAR without the offending algorithm. I expect we would > have to unsign the JAR too when modified. > > Do we have any dependencies upon IDEA? I see some references in the > JSSE cipher suite code,
Reference to IDEA? Thanks, Mikhail but likely we don't attempt use it if we don't > have it. > > [1] > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200709.mbox/[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > > Regards, > Tim >
