Re: non-RSA public-key encryption systems

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From: Robert D. Silverman
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1987 23:58

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]>]Anybody know of a reasonably good public-key encryption system which has
]>]not been broken like the knapsack algorithm and is not patented like RSA?
]> 
]>It doesn't exist.
]
]Not true.  As far as I know any algorithm based on computing logarithms
]in a finite field are available.  Cylink is marketing a product called
 
Sorry, but due to the efforts of Odlyzko, Coppersmith, et. al. 
the discrete log in GF(p^q) problem is effectively solvable.

Bob Silverman

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Subject: Re: non-RSA public-key encryption systems
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