RSA key-gen???

[Simpson, Sam]

For a start:  Elgamal keys are (currently thought to be...) stronger than
RSA keys of the same size?

(see for example: http://www.scramdisk.clara.net/pgpfaq.html#SubRSADH).


Regards,

Sam Simpson
http://www.scramdisk.clara.net/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack McKinney [mailto:jackmc-gnupg-users@lorentz.com]
> Sent: 21 September 2000 13:54
> To: Simpson, Sam
> Subject: Re: RSA key-gen???
> 
> Big Brother tells me that Werner Koch wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > I downloaded GnuPG 1.0.3 thinking I'd finally be able to 
> have RSA-based 
> > > keys given that the patent has expired. However, it 
> appears that you still 
> > > can't generate RSA keys using GPG. I looked through the 
> keygen code and 
> > 
> > 
> > Why do you thinlk RSA is better that DSA/ElGamal? 
> 
>     Why do you think ElGamal is better than RSA?
> 
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