At 12:30 PM +0800 6/5/00, Erron Criddle wrote: >To all, > >Has RSA allowed a royalty/payment free use of the Triple-DES algorithm for >use in the OpenPGP standard? > No, they haven't. On the other hand, since they have utterly nothing to do with Triple-DES, there's no need for them to. Triple-DES is a completely open algorithm, which is why OpenPGP, as well as many other IETF standards, use it. Jon