[2327] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Rivest's Chaffing and Winnowing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon Mar 23 16:57:20 1998
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <199803221458.JAA04147@camel8.mindspring.com> from John Young at "Mar 22, 98 09:59:23 am"
To: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:12:26 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
John Young wrote:
(Well, John Markoff, really. but we can all plainly see that this
isn't JYA's text. :)
| The technique, which was described this week in an Internet
| discussion among computer researchers, was introduced by
| Ronald L. Rivest, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts
| Institute of Technology and one of the inventors of the
| most widely used commercial encryption scheme, RSA.
I *must* be on the wrong discussion lists.
Or was Mr. Markoff predicting the future?
Adam
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