Some patents have expired but still openssl package does not support them.

[BWET_AC]

Binary package hint: openssl

Is it possible to recompile openssl and libssl with enable-IDEA enable-mdc2 and enable-camellia

because:

In http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html:

FYI: Patent numbers and expiry dates of US patents: MDC-2: 4,908,861 13/03/2007 IDEA: 5,214,703 25/05/2010 RC5: 5,724,428 03/03/2015

therefore:

mdc-2 and IDEA patents expired.

Additionally the cipher "Camellia":

Royalty Free ===> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_(cipher)

NTT and Mitsubishi have patents and pending patents on the Camellia
 algorithm, but allow use at no charge without requiring an explicit
 licensing agreement: http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/eng/info/chiteki.html

In Fedora 13 "Camellia" is enable in default openssl package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Camellia is also enabled in up-to-date Ubuntu packages, the list of ciphers show:
 camellia-128-cbc
 camellia-128-ecb
 camellia-192-cbc
 camellia-192-ecb
 camellia-256-cbc
 camellia-256-ecb

The other two still seems to be disabled...?

[Adrien Nader (adrien)]

Camellia is available IIRC although it is going away. IDEA already went away in real-world scenarios (but it might be available anyway) and MDC-2 is something I hadn't heard of before now.

I'm marking this as Invalid because there is no single Status meaningful here since this mentions three different algorithms and three different tickets would therefore be needed to properly express the outcome.