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

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)
Message Hash: c12c6b235477fb39fafaea2f29b737cefa4a074771cd424e9b219b1a0f3ffa66
Message ID: <199611141225.HAA19903@homeport.org>
Reply To: <v03007813aeb0506ae6a3@[206.119.69.46]>
UTC Datetime: 1996-11-14 12:29:28 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 04:29:28 -0800 (PST)

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 04:29:28 -0800 (PST)
To: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)
Subject: Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal
In-Reply-To: <v03007813aeb0506ae6a3@[206.119.69.46]>
Message-ID: <199611141225.HAA19903@homeport.org>
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Robert Hettinga wrote:
| At 10:43 pm -0500 11/13/96, Lucky Green wrote:
| >I agree. Support for soon to be patent free algrithms is a good thing. I
| >hope that in version 4.0, after the users had time to migrate to
| >DSS/ElGamal, PGP will fully move away from RSA.
| 
| Speaking of patent-free, :-), can you do blind signatures without RSA?

Chaum has something called unanticipated blind signatures that don't
use RSA.  The problem with blinding is not the RSA patents.  Those run
out much sooner than Chaum's patents.

Adam

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