cipe

[Joe Orton]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:48:52PM -0600, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 
> > Cipe 1.5.4 has two different crypto algorithms (Blowfish and IDEA). They
> > are mutually exclusive in the code. In addition, the two protocol types
> > (3 and 4) are mutually exclusive in the code.
> > 
> > This means, to add it to the Red Hat Linux kernel as is, there would
> > need to be 4 directories with virtually identical code, simply to
> > account for all 4 possible modules. Headers cannot be shared in current
> > state.
> 
> That's not new. Cipe 1.4.x also has both Blowfish and IDEA. Unless compiled 
> with
> 
> ./configure --enable-idea
> 
> it only includes Blowfish, just like with Cipe 1.5.x.
> 
> RH has, AFAIK, only shipped Cipe with Blowfish only, and I don't know of any
> reason why it would be necessary or even desirable to include IDEA support
> suddenly just because of moving to 1.5.x.

Indeed, IDEA is patent encumbered, we couldn't ship this at all.

joe