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At 01:15 AM 4/16/96 -0500, K00l Secrets wrote:
>> If the Diffie-Hellmann patent covers all kind of public key crypto,
>> you need a license from Cylink, i.e. BSAFE is not enough, and if it
>> doesn't you can use El Gamal without a license.
>
>Are there any freely available implementations of El Gamal?
>From what I remember, RSA had made various legal threats to anyone using El
Gamal. (They claimed it was covered under their patents.) Since the
Cylink/PKP blowup, I am not certain of the status of this algorithm.
Does anyone have more information on the current status of El Gamal?
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