Corporate use of gnupg
Robert J. Hansen
rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Tue Feb 19 18:54:45 CET 2008
Werner Koch wrote:
> Frankly, I did not knew about this patent until now.
US Patent 6314190, for those who want to check it out.
> I consider the ADK the wrong solution to a problem which can't be solved
> by a tool.
Mostly agreed.
> We won't add ARR (aka ADK) to GnuPG. It would be more useful to add a
> re-encode feature to add another public or symmetric key for decryption.
The patent language on #6314190 is sufficiently broad that it would
arguably cover this, too, depending on how it's implemented.
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