Patch: FAQ

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Klaus Singvogel wrote:

> --- gnupg-1.0.1/doc/FAQ.orig    Sat Dec  4 12:29:59 1999
> +++ gnupg-1.0.1/doc/FAQ Tue May  9 17:31:38 2000
> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
>      supported by GnuPG because it is patented, but if you have a modified
>      version of PGP you can try this:
>  
> -       gpg --rfc1991 --cipher-algo 3des ...
> +       gpg --rfc1991 --cipher-algo idea ...

Watch out for the "...modified version of PGP .." - I assume that this
is will be a 3DES one ;-).  The GNU project does not support patented
algorithms and therefore you won't read IDEA in it :-).  Yes, I know
that there are some countries where there is no valid patent on IDEA.

  Werner

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