[82336] in Cypherpunks
Re: New PGP signatures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Mon Jun 23 19:12:50 1997
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 15:27:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: tzeruch@ceddec.com
Cc: cypherpunks mailing list <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
In-Reply-To: <97Jun23.173902edt.32257@brickwall.ceddec.com>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 tzeruch@ceddec.com wrote:
[On PGP switching to SHA-1/ElGamal]
> They could have supported RSA/SHA if they wanted to. They also put 3DES
> and IDEA support as options in the manual (but not in the freeware or
> tryit versions that I can see).
I guess suggestions such as the one above prove that CP is still attracting
newbies. That's a good thing. Now if they only read the FAQ.
The patents for DH (which cover the public domain ElGamal) expire this
Fall. By using SHA-1/ElGamal, PGP is moving to a technology that will soon
no longer require paying large sums of money to RSA for the use of a
one-line mathematical formula. This is *a good thing*.
--Lucky
