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Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal

To: "Bert-Jaap Koops" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal
From: Derek Atkins <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:04:13 EST
cc: [email protected]
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:47:47 +0700." <[email protected]>
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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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