Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal

[Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>]

Bert-Jaap <E.J.Koops@kub.nl> writes:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:32:52 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
> [snip]
> > 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?

Note that part of my above post is now in need of revision as a result
of comments I received from that post.  PGP 3.0 will, it seems, still
be able to verify (and maybe even generate too?) RSA signatures, and
decrypt RSA encrytped email.  So the "will not use RSA" above is
incorrect.

Adam
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