> It's historical. Back in the late 1990s, the PGP developers were > offered a free patent license if they called it Diffie-Hellman. Now > that the patent has expired, though, it's a little hard to change > their product without confusing a bunch of customers who would see > their "Diffie-Hellman" keys suddenly become "Elgamal" keys. > > David [citation needed]??
Felipe
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