Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal

[Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>]

Robert Hettinga wrote:
| At 10:43 pm -0500 11/13/96, Lucky Green wrote:
| >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.
| 
| Speaking of patent-free, :-), can you do blind signatures without RSA?

Chaum has something called unanticipated blind signatures that don't
use RSA.  The problem with blinding is not the RSA patents.  Those run
out much sooner than Chaum's patents.

Adam

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