GnuPG 1.1.91 released

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Tue Aug 6 21:31:02 2002


On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:40:26 +0200 (MET DST), Johan Wevers said:

> http://www.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c.gz

> which doesn't exist. You have to change the http to ftp to make it work.

It used to be there but well, I changed it.

> Well, OK. But just distributing IDEA together with a note that it may
> only be used freely for personal use in some countries and such legal
> blabla would be a much easier solution.

There is no free personal use per se.  You have to get an approvement
from Ascom for this.

> compile a reliable win32 version myself I need a newer version of
> Linux to run MingW on (I'm currently still on libc5/ kernel 2.0.38)

Should also work on other Unix platforms; I know that it once was used
on Solaris.

> by proving IDEA to be insecure if they can decrypt the mail to prove
> the mail was not for personal use, so I doubt I will get any trouble.

:-)



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner