17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
If Bidzos is using the term "technical data" as it's defined in $120.21 of the ITAR, I think it's debatable. Can we come up with data to support that IDEA and RSA are "commonly taught .. in academia"?
The RSA public key algorithm is taught at MIT in the math course 18.063, which is required for an undergraduate computer science degree.
That's one data point...
- Bill
It was taught in one of my digital design classes as an example of why (and how) we need modular arithmetic circuitry, and how it is made. If it is taught in such a non-related class what does that say to the commonness of it?