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Re: Fighting Clipper III
Jim McCoy <[email protected]> writes:
> Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> writes:
> >You'll have trouble doing a successful boycott of RSA. What, you won't
> >use Netscape Navigator or PGP?
>
> Actually RSA is not a hard target for people like us to threaten. The
> Diffie-Hellman patent expires in 210 days. Cylink is prevented from taking
> legal action against anyone for violating this patent while the current
> lawsuit is being decided. When Diffie-Hellman expires ElGamal is available
> for use for free. So the best threat one can make against RSA is to directly
> challenge their revenue stream: start working on making ElGamal an available
> option in all systems which use RSA.
PGPfone uses Diffie-Hellman. PGP 3.0 is using El Gamal.
Seems Zimmermann/PGP Inc are already not using RSA, for patent reasons
I think. Also I believe they are not using IDEA either, and using
CAST, Blowfish, 3DES in PGPfone, 3DES in PGP 3.0(?). (Ascom-tech got
greedy).
Adam
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