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Re: CART before the HORSE

1997-11-10 11:58:56
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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