On Apr 24, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
David Shaw wrote:
The patent holders (Cylink) simply wanted to push the name
Diffie-Hellman for marketing reasons.
Many people think Cylink has a history of regrettably close
cooperation
with the NSA. Some people consider their products to be suspect as a
result of this. Given that, it should be pointed out that PGP
Corporation was licensing the algorithm, not the implementation. PGP
and GnuPG both use their own independent implementations of the
algorithm.
Plus, both the GnuPG implementation and the PGP implementation are
available for review by anyone who wants to look at them. (PGP isn't
open source of course, but you can still get the source for review).
David
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