Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal

[Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Lucky Green wrote:

> 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.

Personally, I'd prefer it if crypto applications had wide support, user
selectable, for as many methods as possible.

I'm still mildly curious as to why support for >128 bit keys is not
available in any form I know of.

> 
> --Lucky
> 

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