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[Ian G Batten]

> As I recall, the original intent of the DSS was to produce a protocol that
> could be used only for signing and not to encrypt a message. I also seem to
> recall that within six months someone had demonstrated that it could be
> used to encrypt a message

I think the delay was until someone figured out that you can use a DSS
_implementation_, called with appropriate parameters, to perform
encryption.  I don't think having keys that can't be used to provide
encryption was part of the design parameters.

ian