[Enigmail] Lib\idea could not be found error

[John Clizbe]

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Servie Platon wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I got this error message after I issued the command
> shown below:
> 
<snippage>
> 
> gpg: invalid module `Lib\idea': The specified module
> could not be found.
> 
> Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256,
> TWOFISH
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
> Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
> 
> Would you guys know what went wrong with my configuration? As far as
> the instructions and steps on http://enigmail.mozdev.org/gpgconf.html
> is concerned, I have followed the steps religiously and copied the 
> iconv.dll to C:\Program Files\GnuPG directory.

Your gpg.conf configuration contains the line

	load-extension Lib\idea

but your GnuPG directory does not contain a Lib subdirectory containing
idea.dll.

IDEA is not included in GnuPG for patent reasons, but is available freely
for non-commercial use. The US patent expires 25-May-2010 and the European
and Japanese patents expire 16-May-2011. More information on IDEA is at
http://www.mediacrypt.com/. The lack of widespread use of IDEA shows the
chilling effect software patents can have.

If you don't need the IDEA cipher remove the line from gpg.conf.

If you do need IDEA, (ie you communicate with PGP 2.x users) obtain the
idea.dll and install it in Lib in your GnuPG program directory.

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/gpg-idea/gpg-idea.htm#120 lists two
sources for the IDEA DLL.

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