Will DSS keys still be preferred over RSA in a few months?

Frank Tobin ftobin@uiuc.edu
Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:24:25 -0500 (CDT)


Dave Dykstra, at 10:59 -0500 on Wed, 5 Jul 2000, wrote:


> What do people think -- will the current preference for DSS PGP/GnuPG keys
> go away when the RSA patent expires?
I don't forsee there being any real favorites. There are real no strong reasons to favor RSA over ElGamal/DSA or vice versa. Don't forget that IDEA (used by PGP 2.x) will still be patented. -- Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/