-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Bert-Jaap Koops wrote:
paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:
I know 3.0 uses discrete log cryptography but whether it will be El Gamal or DH or other I don`t know. I would imagine in the end it would come down to a question of what is unpatented first and I have no idea on the patent date for El Gamal (is it even patented?) but DH hasn`t long to go....
According to Schneier, ElGamal isn't patented, but claimed to be covered by the Diffie-Hellman patent, which expires 29 April 1997.
Actually, it expires in either September or October of 1997. The expiration time of patents was changed from 17 after it is issued to 20 years after application. Mark - -- finger -l for PGP key PGP encrypted mail prefered. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMoyi7yzIPc7jvyFpAQGhyAgAzdXoWBPJ6ZJPvU1Wksya1BmIYnq6owb2 vhOFWeDNuWX/X7m16dOlr4kdRCD7vV8ErOZXvgga0NSHqlKSJ2HD4gmFnFJLuZKn OSh/mNRkkPKR4UypIjgnj4nLPTVkswldXFvJ43NGb2tJ25f/GjecZNQTDBaomcdZ ZLExK4i/nY/xCY1N+If/gTzSPNgL/zldWQkc12M1Nn2dHPe7b74GFsUWEN7zgKnG W5wdj7yzD9s6n1Jyk5zl8bDC386AchXqY1ikeaDU2CduEHNQjGWApWiPEJUZGRxJ u77piV/dtjaecYlVxui91GnJ9VVRbDbPMaMNhbZrAGexTXXxKBnHbQ== =vfjp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----