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In <9807010643(_dot_)AA29576(_at_)watpub1(_dot_)watson(_dot_)ibm(_dot_)com>, on
07/01/98
at 02:43 AM, Uri Blumenthal <uri(_at_)watson(_dot_)ibm(_dot_)com> said:
Paul Lambert says:
So I doubt that open-pgp will be able to include ECC.
If open-pgp contains RSA why can't it contain ECC?
Because today it is possible to have a free and legal
implementation of RSA. But it is not possible to have
a free and legal implementation of ECC.
No, no it's not. RSADSI charges $20,000 to use their algorithms in any
program other than freeware along with some other rather unacceptable
conditions to it's use.
IMHO the only reason RSA is still in the spec is due to the large user
base of 2.6.x users.
The IETF is moving away from the use of encumbered algorithms and I see no
reason why we should reverse the trend here.
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