[Cryptography] "‘The intelligence coup of the century’"

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:47:14 -0800 Bill Stewart
<billstewart at pobox.com> wrote:
> I see 2.5 big advantages of RSA over DH
> - DH is interactive, while RSA works just fine with publishing a
> public key and reusing it multiple times.  So for non-interactive
> applications like email and PGP, RSA's easier.

There's an ElGamal encryption scheme, not just an ElGamal signature
scheme...

> - DH doesn't directly do signatures, and signatures are not only
> useful in themselves, but also you usually need signatures to trust
> the public key parts of DH key exchanges. (Yes, there are El-Gamal
> signatures.)

Perry
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