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Re: El Gamal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Thu May 8 23:08:26 1997

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In-Reply-To: <199705090000.UAA02189@linux.nycmetro.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 19:23:56 -0800
To: harka@nycmetro.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>

At 4:00 PM -0800 5/8/97, harka@nycmetro.com wrote:

>How does El Gamal compare functionally and security-wise to RSA and
>who developed it?

Yes, who did develop El Gamal?

Could it have been....El Gamal?


(Or was that a trick question?)

--Tim May

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