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Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal

To: Black Unicorn <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal
From: Lucky Green <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:43:46 -0800 (PST)
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Black Unicorn wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Absolutely outstanding.

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.

--Lucky

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