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secret history of the development of PK crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Blaze)
Wed Dec 17 10:12:24 1997
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:30:46 -0500
From: Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>
Check out http://www.cesg.gov.uk/ellisint.htm . This is without a doubt
the most interesting paper I've seen in a while. It describes the secret
development of public key crypto (then called "non-secret encryption", a
term I have heard spook-types use on occasion) in the UK in the early 70's.
The CESG is basically the British NSA.
Thanks to David Wagner and Tom Berson for bringing this to my attention!
