Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com> writes:
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.
PGPfone uses Diffie-Hellman. PGP 3.0 is using El Gamal. Seems Zimmermann/PGP Inc are already not using RSA, for patent reasons I think. Also I believe they are not using IDEA either, and using CAST, Blowfish, 3DES in PGPfone, 3DES in PGP 3.0(?). (Ascom-tech got greedy). Adam -- #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)