Re: CART before the HORSE

[Jon Callas <jon@xxxxxxx>]

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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