Detecting PGP 2.6.x keys

[David Shaw]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:05:13AM -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> David Shaw wrote:
> >Why should he?  In most of the world he can't even use IDEA legally
> >without a licence.  This isn't his problem (over 90% of the userbase).
> >This is user A's problem (less than 10% of the userbase).
> 
> Errr...  You have a bug there.  Consider following patch:
> 
> --- foobar.orig 2004-09-17 09:01:37.513404000 -0500
> +++ foobar      2004-09-17 09:01:20.946162000 -0500
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -most_of_the_world == USA
> +most_of_the_world != USA

Actually, no.

IDEA is patented in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Japan, and the USA.

http://www.mediacrypt.com/_contents/10_idea/101030_ea_pi.asp

David