patents

[Jeremey Barrett]

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I just joined the list, and I have some comments re: patents...

I would vote for DSA, since it is currently in PGP 5.x. Introducing
another layer of incompatibility is not good for anyone, especially
given that DSA is free worldwide.

Also, generating keys which are secure for ElGamal _signatures_ (not 
encryption) is considerably harder than for DSA. I believe this was
the reason PGP, Inc chose DSA over ElGamal for signatures.

Regards,
Jeremey.
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Jeremey Barrett                                BlueMoney Software Corp.
Crypto, Ecash, Commerce Systems               http://www.bluemoney.com/
PGP key fingerprint =  3B 42 1E D4 4B 17 0D 80  DC 59 6F 59 04 C3 83 64

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