[65138] in Cypherpunks
Re: forward secrecy in mixmaster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Germano Caronni)
Tue Sep 10 16:30:16 1996
From: Germano Caronni <caronni@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
To: ghio@c2.net (Matthew Ghio)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 21:29:01 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: mix-l@jpunix.com, coderpunks@toad.com, cypherpunks@toad.com,
remailer-operators@c2.org
In-Reply-To: <199609100232.TAA22069@infinity.c2.org> from "Matthew Ghio" at Sep 9, 96 07:32:17 pm
Matthew Ghio wrote:
> > I agree it does not make much difference mathematically, but one DH modulus
> > always makes me uneasy. DH is still patented though. I think I will continue
> > to use RSAREF, but compose the standard so the protocol supports unlimited
> > key sizes.
Just a short note. The DH patent (#4200770), as held by Cylink expires at
the 29th of april '97. Afterwards DH enters the public domain. That's a
certain argument for using DH key exchange. RSA will go into the public
domain somewhen in 2002, if I remember correctly.
Germano
