Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!linus!bs From: bs@linus.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: non-RSA public-key encryption systems Message-ID: <8457@linus.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 05:24:57 EDT Article-I.D.: linus.8457 Posted: Sun Jul 5 05:24:57 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 08:37:39 EDT References: <8248@utzoo.UUCP] Reply-To: bs@linus.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA Lines: 8 In article <8248@utzoo.UUCP] henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: ]Anybody know of a reasonably good public-key encryption system which has ]not been broken like the knapsack algorithm and is not patented like RSA? ]We have an urgent application for such a thing, and I would rather avoid It doesn't exist. Bob Silverman