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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!virtualnews.nyu.edu!brnstnd
  2. From: brnstnd@nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  4. Subject: Re: NIST stumbles on proposal for public-key encryption
  5. Message-ID: <25590.Jul2801.38.4492@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
  6. Date: 28 Jul 92 01:38:44 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul27.130448.41907@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
  8. Organization: IR
  9. Lines: 13
  10.  
  11. In article <1992Jul27.130448.41907@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
  12. > The industry newspaper/magazine "Network World" has an excellent
  13. > article about the NIST's Digital Signature Standard (DSS) and the
  14. > controversy surrounding it, as opposed to international acceptance of
  15. > RSA for both signatures and encryption.
  16.  
  17. One of NIST's stated goals for the standard was freedom from royalties,
  18. for both government and industry. Obviously ``acceptance of RSA'' is out
  19. of the question, given this requirement. Let me guess: Network World
  20. quotes Bidzos as claiming that RSA is used by a majority of companies
  21. around the world...
  22.  
  23. ---Dan
  24.