Bug#802259: ITP: libntru -- implementation of the public-key encryption

2017-03-30 Thread Ralph Todt
As of March 27, the patents are no longer an issue: https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/NTRUEncrypt/issues/11 > The patents are intended to also be public domain. To be specific, we will > not take any enforcement action against anyone for any > use of the indicated > patents on or after Ma

Bug#802259: ITP: libntru -- implementation of the public-key encryption

2015-10-29 Thread Tomasz Buchert
On 29/10/15 12:08, rich...@orvidia.fr wrote: > Hi Tomasz, > > I thought about that too before considering packaging it, but it looks like > it's dual licensed, and patents are only here to protect the commercial > part. > > According to https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/ntru-crypto : Hi Ric

Bug#802259: ITP: libntru -- implementation of the public-key encryption

2015-10-29 Thread richard
Hi Tomasz, I thought about that too before considering packaging it, but it looks like it's dual licensed, and patents are only here to protect the commercial part. According to https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/ntru-crypto : "Security Innovation, Inc., the owner of the NTRU public key

Bug#802259: ITP: libntru -- implementation of the public-key encryption

2015-10-29 Thread Tomasz Buchert
On 18/10/15 22:02, Richard Sellam wrote: > [...] Hi Richard, I don't think we can have it in Debian (yet). NTRU is patented: https://github.com/tbuktu/libntru/blob/master/PATENTS This is the position of Debian about patents: https://www.debian.org/legal/patent The good thing is that th

Bug#802259: ITP: libntru -- implementation of the public-key encryption

2015-10-18 Thread Richard Sellam
Package: wnpp Owner: Richard Sellam Severity: wishlist * Package name: libntru Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Tim Buktu * URL : https://github.com/tbuktu/libntru * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : implementation of the public-key encry