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Also I understand, though there appears to be no available documentation saying as much, that pgp3.0 will not use RSA, nor IDEA, nor MD5, using instead El Gamal for public key encryption and signatures, 3DES (unsure?), and SHA1.

Can someone confirm that PGP3.0 will use ElGamal?

I cannot confirm that but I do know 3.0 will be downward compatible using RSA keys for people using 2.x, I also understand that IDEA will be the symmetric algorithm though I can`t confirm this. 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.... Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"