17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
David G. Koontz writes:
... This Hellman-Diffie proposal was apparently anticipated by a similar version developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) a decade earlier. (p. 164)
[...] It was originally called FIREFLY or somesuch thing. I may have some of the early papers. (The same ones leading to the statement in the book).
This should predate the STU-II to STU-III transition.
I thought that FIREFLY was just the NSA's name for the STS variant that they use for STU-IIs and STU-IIIs. Perry