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1996-10-06 - Re: Fighting Clipper III

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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: mccoy@communities.com
Message Hash: 8822ca4379ac5dd27379640705332c2087ce935ee3222d50d7cdd1be6abb35ea
Message ID: <199610050114.CAA00090@server.test.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-10-06 09:44:51 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 17:44:51 +0800

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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 17:44:51 +0800
To: mccoy@communities.com
Subject: Re: Fighting Clipper III
In-Reply-To: <v03007804ae79cbf6480a@[205.162.51.35]>
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Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com> writes:
> Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org> writes:
> >You'll have trouble doing a successful boycott of RSA. What, you won't
> >use Netscape Navigator or PGP?
> 
> Actually RSA is not a hard target for people like us to threaten.  The
> Diffie-Hellman patent expires in 210 days.  Cylink is prevented from taking
> legal action against anyone for violating this patent while the current
> lawsuit is being decided.  When Diffie-Hellman expires ElGamal is available
> for use for free.  So the best threat one can make against RSA is to directly
> challenge their revenue stream: start working on making ElGamal an available
> option in all systems which use RSA.

PGPfone uses Diffie-Hellman.  PGP 3.0 is using El Gamal.

Seems Zimmermann/PGP Inc are already not using RSA, for patent reasons
I think.  Also I believe they are not using IDEA either, and using
CAST, Blowfish, 3DES in PGPfone, 3DES in PGP 3.0(?).  (Ascom-tech got
greedy).

Adam
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