On Monday 19 July 2010 18:26:15 Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Yoshisato YANAGISAWA > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not to mention there are software patent claims againt camellia. That's > >> a no go right there. > > > > OpenBSD has already included Camellia source code as a part of OpenSSL. > > It is disabled by default, though. > > At the time OpenSSL included Camellia, NTT had shown following news > > release: > > http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news01e/0104/010417.html > > > > NTT also announced that their Camellia implementation also becomes open > > source distributed under BSDL, GPL, and so on: > > http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news06e/0604/060413a.html > > > > Are there any problems? > > The first link says "Caution: This statement is valid only for > implementing Camellia, EPOC, PSEC, and ESIGN, respectively, as is, and > does not permit modification of said algorithms." > > The second link says you no longer need to apply to get a license, but > still restricts it to only people using Camellia. > > Free software you can't modify is not free software.
That's especially galling for software where there are real security considerations: suppose you find a flaw in the algorithm--you can't fix it? Gag. -- STeve Andre' Disease Control Warden Dept. of Political Science Michigan State University A day without Windows is like a day without a nuclear incident.
