Re: Wanted: Twofish source code

Adam Back (aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:48:11 +0100

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Werner Koch writes:
> Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com> writes:
>
> > I am looking for Twofish ports in other assembly languages and other
> > high-level languages. If anyone has, or is willing to write, source code
> > that they will put in the public domain, I would like to talk with them.
>
> GNUPG comes with Twofish in C. Written from scratch by Matthew Skala.
> It is GPLed.
>
> ftp://ftp.guug.de/pub/gcrypt/gnupg-0.4.0.tar.gz

I am not a fan of GNU or GPL licenses, GPL is not public domain by a
long shot.

Any chance you could persuade Matthew Skala to change that to public
domain, or BSD license?

(Perhaps you could persuade yourself to change the license on GNUPG
itself also...)

If one is interested to encourage people to include crypto in their
applications, GNU style licenses are a step in the wrong direction.

Adam

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