Bidzos on PGP and ITAR verbatim

Timothy Newsham newsham at wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
Tue Sep 21 16:30:11 PDT 1993


> 
>    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?







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