Deranged Mutant wrote:

Not to defend or condemn RSA folx or patents, etc., but sometime ago (recently) I read or was told or perhaps hallucinated that PGP3 was going to include non-RSA algorithms that didn't suffer the patent stickiness (El Gammel based on DSA?)

DSA is based on El-Gamal, not the other way round. Although it is likely that a future version of PGP will include these algorithms the problem arises from the Diffie-Helleman patent and not the RSA patent. When this expires in 1997 it is certain that many products using public key cryptosystems will be avaliable in an unrestricted fashion. Phill