On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:53:04 -0400 (EDT), Atom Smasher said: > elgamal isn't used because the implementation was broken. as far as
Nope: Elgamal signatures are really hard to get right and safe. They are a relict form the very early days of GnuPG when I did not knew about the OpenPGP WG. > DSA being "The Standard" i don't think it's any more standard than > RSA, although it is more common. DSS (DSA+SHA1) is the FIPS standard for digital signatures. > the common and widespread use of DSA instead of RSA for signatures No. DSA has a couple of advantages of RSA: It is a different algorithm using another problem than RSA and the signatures creates are much smaller than RSA signatures. Salam-Shalom, Werner _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
