Hi Zooko,
Rather than strip it out, how about a #define: INCLUDE_INCUMBERED or
similar. This way, Crypto++ does not loose features, and folks such as
yourself can choose to gut the encumbered algorithms.
Jeff
On 6/5/09, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <
zooko@...> wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
> I'm trying to get pycryptopp and Tahoe-LAFS into Fedora, and one tiny
> little detail that I have to work-around is that MARS is patented.
> Fedora already includes a version of Crypto++ 5.6.0 with mars.cpp
> stripped out, so the only reason I even have to be aware of this
> detail is that I included a copy of Crypto++ v5.6.0 inside the
> pycryptopp source distribution, and now I suppose I need to remove
> mars.cpp from that embedded copy.
>
> Anyway, I was thinking that it might be nice to let Crypto++ be more
> easily/more widely re-used by removing mars.cpp from the Crypto++
> upstream. I've never heard of anyone using MARS cipher, personally.
> Have you?
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>
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