Jeroen van Gelderen <jeroen(_at_)vangelderen(_dot_)org> writes:
How can my copy of OpenPGP support an IDEA-encrypted message if I am not
allowed to use IDEA to decrypt it?
How many people are really going to be affected by this? As I said in my
previous message, I would imagine that the majority of people still using 2.x
are individuals/personal-use, which means they have no problems using IDEA.
Commercial users will (presumably) be using a licensed version, in which case
it doesn't matter either. You need to distinguish between "We can't use IDEA
for commercial/licensing reasons" and "We refuse to consider IDEA for
ideological reasons". I suspect instances of the former are pretty rare in
practice. Give me some real-world examples where significant use of PGP was
affected by the current situation with IDEA, and show me how MUST NOT IDEA
would have fixed this.
Peter.