RSA in GnuPG?

[Jack McKinney]

    From the GnuPG FAQ:

3.3) How do I include support for RSA and IDEA? 

The official GnuPG distribution (as of 1.0.2) does not contain either of them due to patents restriction. The RSA patent expires Sept
20, 2000. A new GnuPG release is then scheduled to include it. The IDEA patent does not expire before 2007 so don't expect official
support before then. 

     I suspect that the incorporation is already done, and that it was going
to be released in two weeks.  Perhaps they will go ahead and release it
early...

Big Brother tells me that Thomas Lofgren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I expect this to be a FAQ very shortly.
> 
> Since RSA today released the RSA algorithm to the public domain, are
> there any plans to incorporate this algorithm into GnuPG?
> 
> Please CC any replies to me, since I'm not on the list.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom Lofgren
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