-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Jim McCoy wrote:
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.
Rabin public-key encryption will also be free when the D-H patent expires. This has the big advantage that it can use current RSA keys as long as the keys use blum integers (PGP does, I think). Breaking Rabin is provably as difficult as factoring. Mark - -- PGP encrypted mail prefered. Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMlQ+NSzIPc7jvyFpAQFnOQf/TasoroPI6ZUfRuH/13jQedY+R49KYjoc pdOnEmRfzuF3CFt5ZJatB97B+kz50VZMcT4nMGhK24q5fZcvJqTcVDbGMEPJgmeZ 1TZAFiGAXcKjnuB+i1PuGpPkM6SjLkXiuxW4ZASiWtmQ2hCnlCKm/EN+lvW5avjT HjK3W6GiU4HvSmsL292S1jgMrPw/0vbEtQ9J65edamtDboDLfrbYd26OAh0QjUxe vlTHrVcU5v5n4kVxjfvhdVabJOGmFAQ+cIKCVSTmhELPmbYkRp+TIgsRTse15NpK ocEKfpsHZu093AMnealZ6+/neCBWtqKSL2Jz7yHTCDbXkMw0Ab/nLQ== =SJUX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----