Hi all,
We explicitly exclude the "International Data Encryption Algorithm"
(IDEA) in a few Fedora packages (bouncycastle, opengpg, ?) due to its
patent issues. Recently it occurred to me that this patent [1] may
actually have been expired by now. There is some debate in the
wikipedia's discussion page about this topic [2]. From what I
understand, the general perception is that the US patent expired in
May 2011.
Could you please check this?
When is it possible to have the IDEA in Fedora?
Thanks,
Orcan
[1]
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&...
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm