DSA and patents
Werner Koch
wk at isil.d.shuttle.de
Wed Dec 10 09:42:26 CET 1997
Jon Callas <jon at pgp.com> writes:
> The current draft of OpenPGP allows for Elgamal signatures. It *is* true
> 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´s okay, we would only have a problem with the MUST DSA requirement
if we can´t use DSA due to patent issues - according to Peter Gutmann´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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