UK spooks invent RSA, DH in 1973

Jim Burnes jim.burnes at ssds.com
Wed Dec 17 09:29:28 PST 1997



On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, John Young wrote:

> Peter Gutmann wrote:
> 
> >There's an interesting paper at http://www.cesg.gov.uk/ellisint.htm which 
> >claims that UK spooks invented both RSA and DH in 1973 and 1974 respectively.
> 
> We've converted the Ellis Postscript doc to HTML:
> 
>      http://jya.com/ellisdoc.htm

Can patents be revoked due to prior art arguments?

Jim Burnes








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