From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 08:26:39 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: El Gamal
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On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:

> At 01:15 AM 4/16/96 -0500, 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?
>
> From what I remember, RSA had made various legal threats to anyone using El
> Gamal.  (They claimed it was covered under their patents.)  Since the
> Cylink/PKP blowup, I am not certain of the status of this algorithm.
>
> Does anyone have more information on the current status of El Gamal?

Last I heard, El Gamal was not considered to be covered under the D-H patent.

- -- Mark

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