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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
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Posted: Sun Jul  5 05:24:57 1987
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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