PGP3.0 & ElGamal

Bert-Jaap Koops E.J.Koops at kub.nl
Wed Nov 13 07:48:44 PST 1996


On Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:32:52 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
[snip]
> 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?

Bert-Jaap






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