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

Frank Tobin ftobin at uiuc.edu
Wed Jul 5 12:24:25 CEST 2000


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.

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Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/



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