From: harka@nycmetro.com
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 08:39:58 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: El Gamal
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aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk wrote:

>PGP has been standardising on El Gamal which is not covered by RSA's
>patents, for precisely the reason that RSA Inc has a bad record as a
>litigious patent worker.  El Gamal is a variant of Diffie-Hellman, 
>and the patents on Diffie-Hellman are set to expire RSN (later this 
>year, Sept?)

How does El Gamal compare functionally and security-wise to RSA and 
who developed it?

>I think that the initial PGP products are using RSA, however I 
>understood PGP is moving to El Gamal, where RSA is due to be 
>relegated to a `for backwards compatibility only' feature. 

Is El Gamal used in the source for PGP 3.0?

Ciao

Harka 


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