Re: ElGamal signature encoding

Werner Koch (wk@isil.d.shuttle.de)
Mon, 6 Apr 1998 21:22:15 +0200

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nospam-seesignature@ceddec.com writes:

> own, and would be compatible with an enabled PGP5.0i. There is a weakness
> with certain generators and under certain conditions, which is why it was
> left disabled. The paper describing the weakness was mentioned on the

It's in EuroCrypt '96 and somewhere online. I implemented a fast method
to generate a secure prime and generator.

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Werner                      (finger gcrypt@ftp.guug.de for info about GnuPG)

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