-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBM3JpGjltEBIEF0MBAQFDfQf8CawUGU1ynDlmcmsloy7zsh5oQUhcxPSv Luy17oVmbWVeCWpCbqqiWFoRh1+QzBBc8Yfbb2/2LOw1KFyIq5lQ8Ly64JPuVMgV HUocUDnPE7Q18eVVXOfNyG6vg/s0PBRqREVrx1QWn37idPduMTg0TE/IHZqFVrso 3XdVroh41aX7qVnan2+nRnVCbrV9xMvNteWOUl/nADLHCAkoMl/eCcQVY/XSmFjc SsUbNNgCDBJlZhAwAI/CBLM7CBVt4okZQkdKeLNWsrm1tG2yha7vl/2AI6k1Y70H 2g1zTrhqK7q/rqkNL6DKyam/NZ1FKXtO0BsTLsV6KqmI7SnGN4UZXw== =f4Qu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----