The last patents for IDEA expired in 2012. Now it's free to use.
On 3 July 2014 21:24, Rich Salz via RT r...@openssl.org wrote:
As the changelog says for 0.9.8,
(IDEA remains enabled despite being patented. This is because IDEA
is frequently required for interoperability, and there is no
As the changelog says for 0.9.8,
(IDEA remains enabled despite being patented. This is because IDEA
is frequently required for interoperability, and there is no license
fee for non-commercial use. As before, no-idea can be used to
avoid this algorithm.)
rc5 and mdc2 are disabled by default, because of legal concerns. The
same reasoning should apply to idea.
(in Configure)
my %disabled = ( # what = comment
gmp= default,
+ idea = default,
mdc2 =
