What ever happened to... Cray Comp/NSA co-development

[Jim Gillogly]

Correction of one detail:

> tcmay at got.net (Timothy C. May) writes:
> When you've done this, and concluded that RSA-129 could be done in, say, X
> minutes, then move on to RSA-384 (the BlackNet key cracked by the MIT
> group), and on to the 1024- and 2048-bit keys. Tell us how many years or
> centuries it will take. (Hint: Rivest and Schneier have done these

The BlackNet key break didn't have any MIT involvement: it was done by
Paul Leyland of Oxford, Arjen Lenstra of Bellcore, Alec Muffet of Sun UK,
and Jim Gillogly of Cypherpunks, RAND, and Gillogly Software in no
particular order.

	Jim Gillogly
	Trewesday, 28 Foreyule S.R. 1995, 05:49