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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: Any problem with importing IDEA to US???
- Message-ID: <bontchev.727618075@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <1jdckaINNfh0@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 12:07:55 GMT
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- speth@cats.ucsc.edu (James Gustave) writes:
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- > I'm writing an program and I'd like to use the IDEA algorithm for encryption.
- > I know that the licensing on IDEA permits it to be used freely for non-
- > commercial use. What I'm wondering is whether there are import restrictions
- > on using IDEA in the US? Are there any other hidden legal problems with it?
- > Also, the only source that I know of for IDEA is from the PGP source
- > distribution, and I'd like to avoid the legal problems involved in that.
- > Where could I get a good implementation of it??
-
- As far as understand, import/export of -documents- on crypto
- algorithms is not illegal. There is a PostScript document, describing
- the IDEA, available from our ftp site:
-
- ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de:/pub/virus/texts/security/idea.zip
-
- It should be trivial to implement the algorithm from the description.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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