On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, C Matthew Curtin wrote:
> I'm wondering how much ElGamal is going to start popping up for
> session key exchange and that sort of thing. (PKP claims that ElGamal
Hrm, I thought that PKP was disolved by a court, and it's functions taken
up by another entity? Does anyone have anything definitive on this?
> is covered by the patent on DH, but that expires in April '97.) The
> biggest problem with ElGamal is how incredibly slow it is (compared to
> RSA) for the function of signature verification...
Well, it that's the case, I'd expect to see a lot more DH key exchange
after that. :)
Paul
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