Re: CART before the HORSE

[Bill Stewart <stewarts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On the other hand, Diffie-Hellman is generally used in interactive
applications, such as SSL, not batch applications like email encryption -
it's clearly the right choice for those applications.
Open-PGP is probably better off using ElGamal, but it's not a no-brainer.

>On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, David P. Kemp wrote:
>> > If compatibility with pgp2.6, etc, is a MUST, then RSA is a MUST.  Is
>> > this acceptable?  Have we already made a decision on RSA, or has the
>> > IETF already pronounced (via the S/MIME group) a leaning on this?
>>  
>> The TLS group has decided that there is only one MUST algorithm,
>> DSA/DH/3DES, despite the fact that nearly 100% of the installed base
>> of SSL currently uses RSA/RC4.

At 04:43 PM 10/31/1997 +0200, Markku-Juhani Saarinen wrote:
>  We have chosen the exactly same MUST algorithms in IETF-SecSh work
>  (see draft-ietf-secsh-transport-02.txt).


				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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