[Jens Peter Secher] > Thank you for your bug report regarding patents on IDEA, RC2, RC5, > and RC6, all present in libcrypto++. > > Debian's general stand on software patents is to ignore patents when > such patents are not being actively enforced.
Right, well, I assumed that when IDEA and RC5 were removed from openssl several years ago, there was probably a valid reason at the time, a reason which would equally apply to other software in Debian. If not, I suppose I should file a wishlist bug asking for openssl to reinstate these algorithms.
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