>From what I read, this alg was 'proven' as secure as RSA. Which means A is
still an issue. Also, it doubles the size of the data output, making it
useless for large data sets anyways.
Check out elgamml as used in GPG.
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Billy Harvey wrote:
> A young lady in Ireland has developed a cryptographic algorithm that
> at first look provides significantly better speed than RSA. She is
> thinking of releasing the algorithm under open source. The article
> seems relevant to the kernel due to the recent discussions of
> cryptographic hooks. An open source algorithm would be well accepted
> by many users of Linux.
>
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990114S0014
>
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