PGP3.0 & ElGamal

[Lucky Green]

On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Black Unicorn wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Absolutely outstanding.

I agree. Support for soon to be patent free algrithms is a good thing. I 
hope that in version 4.0, after the users had time to migrate to 
DSS/ElGamal, PGP will fully move away from RSA.

--Lucky