Re: Fwd: Face to face meeting in Cozumel?

[Len Sassaman <rabbi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Rachel Willmer wrote:

> > Doesn't the underlying crypto library (openssl, right?) provide you with all
> > the asymmetric algorithms? Why restrict the release to RSA?
>
> To keep the customer who's sponsoring the project happy. Everything
> takes time to code, document and test; and they'd prefer to see a
> minimal release now rather than a complete release later.

There's also good reason not to support DSA in OpenPGP, due to the lack of
a hash function firewall. </deadhorse>