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RSA expiry commemorative version of PGP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Thu Aug 3 10:11:30 2000
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 23:31:26 -0500
Message-Id: <200008030431.XAA00556@cypherspace.org>
From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
To: cryptography@c2.net
So as the RSA patent is expiring, and the PGP folks are pissed at RSA
for various underhand legal shenanigans, can we expect a PGP version
with RSA on by default, perhaps released midnight 20 September as a
ceromonial event at the party?
What about a GnuPG version which includes RSA and IDEA, by default so
that once more all PGP users (2.x, 5.x, GnuPG) can all talk to each
other.
Seems to me that the GPL ought to allow IDEA even though it is
patented in the interests of usability; the IDEA patent holders do at
least offer free non-commercial use.
Adam
