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1996-11-14 - Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal

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From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Message Hash: 4755f9985bea1d09375d8ed386695f493260c984d96c9eb87ed7a2cebe1b1924
Message ID: <Pine.SUN.3.94.961113200754.4470C-100000@polaris>
Reply To: <199611131804.NAA26899@charon.MIT.EDU>
UTC Datetime: 1996-11-14 01:09:51 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:09:51 -0800 (PST)

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From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:09:51 -0800 (PST)
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal
In-Reply-To: <199611131804.NAA26899@charon.MIT.EDU>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.94.961113200754.4470C-100000@polaris>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Derek Atkins wrote:

> hi,
> 
> > > Also I understand, though there appears to be no available
> > > documentation saying as much, that pgp3.0 will not use RSA, nor IDEA,
> > > nor MD5, using instead El Gamal for public key encryption and
> > > signatures, 3DES (unsure?), and SHA1.
> > 
> > Can someone confirm that PGP3.0 will use ElGamal?
> 
> The PGP 3.0 code that I've been working on has support for:
> 	IDEA, 3DES
> 	MD5, SHA1
> 	RSA, DSS, ElGamal
> 
> It does not discontinue support for the PGP 2.6.2 algorithms.  It adds
> support for new ones.

Absolutely outstanding.

> 
> -derek
> 

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