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deprecate MARS due to patent encumbrance?

by zooko :: Rate this Message:

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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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