PGP3.0 & ElGamal
Derek Atkins
warlord at ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Wed Nov 13 10:04:54 PST 1996
hi,
> > 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?
The PGP 3.0 code that I've been working on has support for:
IDEA, 3DES
MD5, SHA1
RSA, DSS, ElGamal
It does not discontinue support for the PGP 2.6.2 algorithms. It adds
support for new ones.
-derek
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