DSA and patents

[Werner Koch]

Jon Callas <jon@pgp.com> writes:

> The current draft of OpenPGP allows for Elgamal signatures. It *is* tru=
e
> that PGP 5.x does not implement them, but the standard allows them. If
> there's anything in the draft that forbids them, let me know and I'll
> correct it, as I consider that a bug in the spec.

It=B4s okay, we would only have a problem with the MUST DSA requirement
if we can=B4t use DSA due to patent issues - according to Peter Gutmann=B4=
s
message this will not be the case.

By the way: The bit fiddling stuff with the length headers is somewhat
annoying:  If there is need for partial length headers, the document will
anyway be quite large and spending some extra bytes does matter.  I hope
that can be fixed with next OpenPGP version.

Werner

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