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Re: [Fwd: irish schoolgirl's 10 x faster RSA]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Eldridge)
Wed Jan 13 13:36:06 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:32:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Brett Eldridge <beldridg@best.com>
To: "Frank O'Dwyer" <fod@brd.ie>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <369C80B9.4F9DF481@brd.ie>
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Frank O'Dwyer wrote:
> Miss Flannery is now deciding what to do with her new code, the
> Cayley-Purser, named after Arthur Cayley, an eminent 19th-century
> Cambridge mathematician, and Michael Purser, a cryptographer who
> inspired her. She is considering publishing her findings rather than
> patenting as she does not want people to pay for her discovery.
I just finished reading a similar version at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_254000/254236.stm
and I had one thought:
Maybe somebody well-known in the community should "reach out" to Miss
Flannery and try to show her that the best thing she could do for her
algorithm is to publish it. It sounds like she is headed in that
direction but a little coaching wouldn't hurt.
- brett
