In article <199604251927.PAA27960@jekyll.piermont.com> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> cc: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:27:04 -0400 Reply-To: perry@piermont.com X-From-Line: cypherpunks-errors@toad.com Thu Apr 25 20:07:52 1996 X-Authentication-Warning: jekyll.piermont.com: Host perry@localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Reposting-Policy: redistribute only with permission Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Precedence: bulk Lines: 11 Xref: amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu cypherpunks:8797
Bill Frantz writes:
I will add to Bill's list:
7) RSA is the best known and vetted of the Public Key algorithms.
Nota at all, Mr. Frantz. There are no proofs of security associated with RSA. Rabin has excellent proofs that breaking a message is strictly equivalent to factoring.
Isn't Rabin's algorithm patented, too? Perhaps the licensing terms are better. Does anyone know for sure? Thanks, David