From: s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 01:56:23 +0800
To: K00l Secrets <secret@secret.alias.net>
Subject: Re: None
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On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, K00l Secrets wrote:

> > If the Diffie-Hellmann patent covers all kind of public key crypto,
> > you need a license from Cylink, i.e. BSAFE is not enough, and if it
> > doesn't you can use El Gamal without a license.
> 
> Are there any freely available implementations of El Gamal?
Wei Dai's crypto++ has pretty much everything, in c++. 
<http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai> has the info and a pointer to
the latest version (2.0) at an export-controlled-site.

The old versions, (1.0 still has the algorithms RSADSI disputed) 
are available in <ftp://ftp.utopia.kacktic.nl/pub/replay/pub/crypto/LIBS> 
under the names crypto10.zip and crypto11.zip (I think). I didn't see 2.0 .

I think Hal Finney's has some of it ported to Java. ( www.portal.com is 
inaccessible at the moment)