RSA Encryption / exchange with PGP

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:35:09 -0500, David Hill said:

> ftp://ftp.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/ and that worked perfectly. Then I
> went to the www.mediacrypt.com site and found I could license the
> IDEA algorithm for 15 euros per seat, and presto, the rouge IDEA dll

Just for the record: 

The primary reason GnuPG was written is to avoid exactly that patent
claim.  I am obviously not very lucky to hear that money is put into
the chests of the patent holder by means of software written to avoid
that.

There is no technical reason for IDEA and actually it is a weaker
cipher than the modern ones (i.e. AES or Twofish) at least in terms of
block size.

http://swpat.ffii.org, http://noepatents.org


  Werner