At 01:15 AM 4/16/96 -0500, K00l Secrets wrote:
If the Diffie-Hellmann patent covers all kind of public key crypto, you need a license from Cylink, i.e. BSAFE is not enough, and if it doesn't you can use El Gamal without a license.
Are there any freely available implementations of El Gamal?
From what I remember, RSA had made various legal threats to anyone using El Gamal. (They claimed it was covered under their patents.) Since the Cylink/PKP blowup, I am not certain of the status of this algorithm.
Does anyone have more information on the current status of El Gamal? --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:
At 01:15 AM 4/16/96 -0500, K00l Secrets wrote:
If the Diffie-Hellmann patent covers all kind of public key crypto, you need a license from Cylink, i.e. BSAFE is not enough, and if it doesn't you can use El Gamal without a license.
Are there any freely available implementations of El Gamal?
From what I remember, RSA had made various legal threats to anyone using El Gamal. (They claimed it was covered under their patents.) Since the Cylink/PKP blowup, I am not certain of the status of this algorithm.
Does anyone have more information on the current status of El Gamal?
Last I heard, El Gamal was not considered to be covered under the D-H patent. - -- Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xf9b22ba5 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5 "The concept of normalcy is just a conspiracy of the majority" -me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMXPpKbZc+sv5siulAQGi0AP/fOfXEu80ifJqVaa5IQZYrZ1MATJjfXCL QEJC4BC/6KbPxrXubLO8a/l5GtbgAZ7N3CLo5ANkKL/BHNG0yrEaaPmbtWD0cx9G o6BU2Kd+PAC6zSf5hMJjri6x7zKBPATO+Sxb67NT75sB5LwJJD0FOyTGGcCzrIYi XApaDOTaeNA= =FqbA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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