[79697] in Cypherpunks
El Gamal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (harka@nycmetro.com)
Thu May 8 20:36:45 1997
From: harka@nycmetro.com
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 20:00:32 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: harka@nycmetro.com
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aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk wrote:
>PGP has been standardising on El Gamal which is not covered by RSA's
>patents, for precisely the reason that RSA Inc has a bad record as a
>litigious patent worker. El Gamal is a variant of Diffie-Hellman,
>and the patents on Diffie-Hellman are set to expire RSN (later this
>year, Sept?)
How does El Gamal compare functionally and security-wise to RSA and
who developed it?
>I think that the initial PGP products are using RSA, however I
>understood PGP is moving to El Gamal, where RSA is due to be
>relegated to a `for backwards compatibility only' feature.
Is El Gamal used in the source for PGP 3.0?
Ciao
Harka
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