On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:06, [email protected] said: > IIRC, it was a response to laws like the United Kingdom's RIPA which > allows the authorities to demand encryption keys from users. By
No, that is not the case. The RIP act was first introduced in 2000 whereas the OpenPGP draft was first defined in autumn 1997. A technical case which required the use of two keys was the patent status of RSA. The DH patents expired in April 97 which allowed to do patent unencumbered public key crypto. For signature DSA was a natural choice; DSA however can't be used for encryption (at least it is not designed for that) and thus Elgamal was used for encryption. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
