In a recent GAO report on governmental funding of university research there is this note: In fiscal year 1996, the commercialization of the public key encryption method, which was developed under grants from the Navy and NSF, resulted in $271,875 in royalties to MIT. Does this refer to RSA or PGP? Did the Navy underwrite RSA's PK work? If so does the USG have a secret stake in PGP, Network Associates and RSA? More: did the Navy guide PK researchers based on the secret UK PK work before Diffie-Hellman? The full report: http://jya.com/rced-98-126.txt (184K)