"Chad C. Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>As far as I know El-Gammal has everything you want from PKC and it's used in
>GNU's GPG, the PGP replacement. It's unpatented, too, and free for use
>anywhere.
>
>So why hasn't anyone ever put an El-Gammal cipher suite in an SSL
>implementation? Is it something that's been just missed, or am I missing
>something VERY obvious?
The problem is that you're relying on draft-rfced-info-gutmann-elgamal-01.txt
for the X.509 profile for Elgamal, which isn't very widely accepted (in fact I
know of only one piece of software which implements it). If it was in OpenSSL,
you'd be limited to communicating with other OpenSSL implementations.
Peter.
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