[Cryptech Tech] Why no DSA?

Leif Johansson leifj at sunet.se
Wed Jan 15 12:02:13 UTC 2014


On 2014-01-15 11:49, Linus Nordberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the Sthlm meeting in December we discussed various use cases and
> decided to drop OTR from 0.1 (or whatever we called it) since it
> requires DSA. What's the reason again for not doing DSA? I've forgotten.
>
> Thanks,
> Linus
>
We decided that the only thing that needed DSA was OTR and that wasn't a
good enough reason to do DSA in version 1.0 where we're trying to focus
on validating the designs and tools.

Nothing precludes DSA in version 1.1

        Cheers Leif




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