At 10:37 AM 11/10/97 +0000, Ian Grigg wrote:
I thought that actually pgp5.x does use ElGamal, Jon posted that the
reason it was called Diffie Hellman was the name recognition.
I would hope that the Open PGP standard does not incorporate this
confusion and uses the appropriate technical name for the algorithm.
Yes, in the draft, Elgamal is called Elgamal.
Jon
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