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

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 4:57 PM Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com> wrote:

> 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...
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElGamal_signature_scheme

Schnorr is closely related.
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