on the `R' in `RSA'
smb at research.att.com
smb at research.att.com
Fri Sep 24 08:40:38 PDT 1993
I'd also be interested in hearing of any other accounts that match my
own passion for the subject :) Also, if others have any educated
opinion, evidence, or theories of whether public key crypto was
*undiscovered* by the NSA prior to the publication of Diffie and
Hellman and RSA, I'd read them with great fascination.
NSA claims to have developed public-key cryptography about ten years before
the public discovery. See
@article{Diffie88,
author = {Whitfield Diffie},
journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE},
month = {May},
number = {5},
pages = {560--577},
title = {The First Ten Years of Public Key Cryptography},
volume = {76},
year = {1988}
}
a paper I hightly recommend to this entire list.
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