NSA Cryptolog, August-September 1986 reviews Ralph Merkel's book, Secrecy, Authentication,and Public Key Systems, with disdain and dismissal: "No library need acquire this tract." The once Secret review cites the PKC work of James Ellis, Malcolm Williamson and Cliff Cocks at GCHQ eleven years before their role became public in 1997. http://cryptome.org/2013/03/nsa-critiques-pkc.htm _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE