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Werner Koch (wk@isil.d.shuttle.de)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:40:15 +0200
Hal Finney <hal@rain.org> writes:
> DSS signatures are considerably faster and smaller, and ElGamal
> signatures have a known weakness which requires keys to be carefully
This is not very complicated (and fast) if you use Lim and Lee suggested
method to generate the prime.
> At the IETF meeting last week, there was a rumor going around of a
> patent which would cover ElGamal signatures (but supposedly not DSS).
Hmmm, my initial decision to use ElGamal was due to the Schnorr and the
Kravitz patent on DSA.
-- Werner (finger gcrypt@ftp.guug.de for info about GnuPG)
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