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Re: The case against ElGamal signatures in PGP

1998-06-02 10:28:25
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At 01:24 AM 6/2/98 -0700, Philip Zimmermann wrote:

... long discussion of El Gamal signatures deleted.

This would seem to be an important issue. It asks us to change a standard
after some people have already implemented the ElG feature. 

Why, then, does this letter from Phil Zimmermann not bear Phil's PGP
signature? Is this an oversight, or a forgery? OK, maybe I'm paranoid. OK, I
_am_ paranoid, but Phil created PGP to handle issues like this, and I'm
thankful that he did. Phil, did you forget to use your own tool?

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iQA/AwUBNXQ3CWEDW2uGC8U0EQJikgCgmBZXH8zgreh59FP0c6k1tlStMwcAoNoG
YeT0UxDMwyNr8icfn7X/25t0
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