IDEA

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:12:09AM +0800, Edward Khoo wrote:
> G'day mate,

> >Note that I am not in Europe and the European patent on IDEA does 
> >not apply here.

	???

	I thought Europe was one place where you could use it.  US and
Switzerland are the backwaters where software patents are crippling
innovation and development.  I thought Europe had resisted the heroin
of software patents so far...

> Good for you. Though I do wonder what is happening to Hague Accord? Did 
> it fell through? International patent recognition is a highly 
> controversial thingie.

> :-) Until the good folks in Europe wakes up (over there the time is 5am 
> as compare to Perth time of 11am). You may want to try this link:
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/pub/gcrypt/contrib/idea.c

	Fraid not....

[mhw@chaos mhw]$ ftp ftp.gnupg.org
Connected to trithemius.gnupg.org.
220-              +-------------------------------------------------
220-              +--  Welcome to the Roxen Challenger FTP server --
220-              +--        on a Debian/GNU Linux system         --
220-              +-------------------------------------------------
220
331 Anonymous ftp accepted, send your complete e-mail address as password.
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd /pub/gcrypt/contrib/
250-Please read the file README.
 It was last modified Mon Apr 23 15:12:26 2001 - 142 days ago.
 
 Please read the file README.idea.
 It was last modified Sat Aug 18 14:14:54 2001 - 25 days ago.
 
 Please read the file README.rsa.
 It was last modified Sat Jun  9 16:43:53 2001 - 95 days ago.
 
250 Current directory is now /pub/gcrypt/contrib/.
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/gcrypt/contrib/" is current directory.
ftp> dir i*
200 PORT command ok (209.134.176.37 port 44345)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/bin/ls
i*: not found
226 Transfer complete.

	Looks like something happened on August 18.  Anyone care to
elaborate on WTF is going on????  I thought that was suppose to be
a contrib directory.  Now we have the politically correct police
stepping in on contrib directories?

	Retrieved README.idea and this is what is has to say:

] idea.c - The GnuPG IDEA plugin.

] Due to patent problems we do not keep the idea.c file any longer here on
] this server.   If you are in a country where the distribution is allowed,
] you might want to get it from its new distribution server; however we
] suggest to avoid this algorithm entirely due to interoperability problems.

] For information on the dangers of softwarepatents, please visit the website

]         http://www.noepatents.org

] The new URLs are:

]   http://www.gnupg.org/contrib-dk/idea.c
]   http://www.gnupg.org/contrib-dk/idea.c.sig
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Apparently not.

] Thanks.

	Looks like he went one step further than you and slammed into
a brick wall.  I get the same error he encountered when trying the same
URL referenced in the README file in the directory you recommended.  He
even STATES that he got the link from the ftp directory.

	Fortunately (for me) I already had a copy of the file before the
GPL fanatics removed it from the site.  I have no clue where it may be
available from.

> Cheers,
> Edward

> David K. Trudgett wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am attempting to set up interoperability with PGP 2.6.x, but am 
> >having no luck finding IDEA.c for IDEA support. In the FTP archive
> >there is a link to http://www.gnupg.org/contrib-dk/idea.c, which
> >doesn't exist.
> >
> >Note that I am not in Europe and the European patent on IDEA does 
> >not apply here.
> >
> >Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting this to work?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >David Trudgett

	Mike
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