IDEA/RSA

[Peter Gerwinski]

Hello!

Duncan Watson wrote:
> I have been trying to find out the licensing issues for using these
> patented algorithms with gpg [...]

See

    http://www.ascom.ch/infosec/

and especially

    http://www.ascom.ch/infosec/idea/online_order_form.html

for how someone can "own" a mathematical formula.

Next time they will patent the `sin' function ... :-(

Hope this helps,

    Peter

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