>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel S Riley <dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu> writes:
    Daniel> jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) writes:
    >> } > } rc5 (patented in the US by RSA) } > } rsa (patented in the US) }
    >> > } dsa (patent claimed by RSA in the US) } >
    Daniel> [...]
    >> Although, the US is a fairly large country, I didn't realise that it
    >> constituted a large chunk of the world.  Nobody has made any claim
    >> that the above items are patented anywhere other then the US.

    Daniel> Schnorr has US, EU and Japaneses patents, licensed to RSA, that
    Daniel> he claims cover DSA[1]--so DSA isn't US only.

    Daniel> [1] http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/letters/SchnorrMar98.html

  1) do I keep DSA?
  2) if I do, do I make it build optionally?
  3) if I do, can someone explain why we whatever arguments apply to
	DSA don't apply to RSA, and IDEA?

  I want to emphasis that the question is:
	"do I keep the *SOURCE* code"

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