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Re: Quick Triple-DES Q



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