gnupg includes an implementation of IDEA, for use in countries where it can be distributed under the GPL (all countries except AUSTRIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, THE UK AND THE US).
Someone requested an idea USE flag in #28870, which is simple to implement..is it safe to add this flag, with a warning about countries where it is not permitted and using the nomirror RESTRICTion ? or should we just avoid this code, as only a few users who would be interested in would be permitted to use it? it is also possible to build it as a module, seperately from gnupg (although the developers reccomend building it statically if possible), is this more desirable? or, I could just mark this bug WONTFIX... http://www.gnupg.org/why-not-idea.html example patch to gnupg-1.2.3-r5.ebuild that would enable IDEA. --- gnupg-1.2.3-r5.ebuild 2003-12-03 22:22:01.000000000 +0000 +++ gnupg-1.2.3-r6.ebuild 2003-12-03 22:39:32.000000000 +0000 @@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ DESCRIPTION="The GNU Privacy Guard, a GPL pgp replacement" HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnupg.org/"; -SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/${P}.tar.bz2"; +SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/${P}.tar.bz2 + idea? ( ftp://ftp.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c.gz )" SLOT="0" -LICENSE="GPL-2" +LICENSE="GPL-2 IDEA" KEYWORDS="~x86 ~alpha ~sparc ~hppa ~ia64" -IUSE="X ldap nls static caps" +IUSE="X ldap nls static caps idea" +RETRICT="nomirror" RDEPEND="!static? ( ldap? ( net-nds/openldap ) caps? ( sys-libs/libcap ) @@ -46,6 +48,12 @@ # # http://www.s-quadra.com/advisories/Adv-20031203.txt cd ${S}; epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-hkp-format-string.diff + + # implement the IDEA algorithm, for distribution in countries + # where the patent does not apply. + if use idea; then + mv ${WORKDIR}/idea.c ${S}/cipher/idea.c || ewarn "failed to insert IDEA module" + fi } src_compile() { @@ -119,4 +127,11 @@ einfo "This is needed in order to have a secure place to store your" einfo "passphrases, etc. at runtime but may make some sysadmins nervous." fi + echo + if use idea; then + einfo "you have compiled gnupg with support for the IDEA algorithm, this code" + einfo "is distributed under the GPL in countries where it is permitted to do so" + einfo "by law." + einfo "Please read http://www.gnupg.org/why-not-idea.html for more information" + fi } -- ------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | finger me for my gpg key. ------------------------------------------------------- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
