HOWTO on interfacing with gnupg/pgp?

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

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On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:05:10PM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote:

> > By still using IDEA you are giving the proponents of software patents
> > a momentum

> Only if you pay for it. :-)

Hmm.. No. If many are using IDEA on a personal, non commercial basis
(thus not paying a license), it will become a "de facto" standard and
a company that wants encrypted communications with everyone that
wishes it will have to support IDEA. Thus pay for it. Agreed, OpenPGP
is carefully designed enough so that no implementation needs to
support IDEA. But by using IDEA to communicate with other persons
using PGP 2.x, you are not giving them compelling reasons to switch to
an OpenPGP implementation, thus maintaining a population that supports
*only* IDEA.

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