PGP3.0 & ElGamal

Lucky Green shamrock at netcom.com
Thu Nov 14 13:14:08 PST 1996


On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:

> At 10:43 pm -0500 11/13/96, Lucky Green wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Speaking of patent-free, :-), can you do blind signatures without RSA?

Yes, but you still need to license the blind signature patent itself.

--Lucky






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