Will DSS keys still be preferred over RSA in a few months?
    Frank Tobin 
    ftobin at uiuc.edu
       
    Wed Jul  5 12:24:25 CEST 2000
    
    
  
Dave Dykstra, at 10:59 -0500 on Wed, 5 Jul 2000, wrote:
> What do people think -- will the current preference for DSS PGP/GnuPG keys
> go away when the RSA patent expires?
I don't forsee there being any real favorites.  There are real no strong
reasons to favor RSA over ElGamal/DSA or vice versa.
Don't forget that IDEA (used by PGP 2.x) will still be patented.
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