From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
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From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 04:44:22 -0800 (PST)
To: rah@shipwright.com
Subject: Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal
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> 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?
I think it is possible using the both Diffie-Hellman and the RPK algorithm
(developed by the New Zealand chap quite recently), although patents
probably apply to the latter algorithm.
Don't forget that for ecash style systems, only the *client* needs to
do the blinding, not the bank.
Gary
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