Re: What do we have to do today?

[Bill Frantz <frantz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 9:00 AM -0800 10/31/97, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>I agree with Ian that RSA should be left in for non-US implementors who don't
>have to worry about patents.  For us the concern is getting people to use the
>implementation, people have heard of, and trust, RSA, people can sometimes be
>persuaded to use DSA, but noone outside the crypto/security community has
>ever
>heard of Elgamal, and it's going to be a tough job going to someone who
>barely
>knows how to spell RSA and convincing them to use a different algorithm
>they've never heard of before.

USA developers won't care after the autumn of 2000.  Then people can go
back to worrying about advances in factoring as well as attacks on random
numbers.


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