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Re: Fwd: Face to face meeting in Cozumel?

2008-01-22 13:58:20

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Rachel Willmer wrote:

Doesn't the underlying crypto library (openssl, right?) provide you with all
the asymmetric algorithms? Why restrict the release to RSA?

To keep the customer who's sponsoring the project happy. Everything
takes time to code, document and test; and they'd prefer to see a
minimal release now rather than a complete release later.

There's also good reason not to support DSA in OpenPGP, due to the lack of
a hash function firewall. </deadhorse>

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