[3966] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Matrix stuff...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Abelson)
Wed Jan 13 21:26:50 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 21:04:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Hal Abelson <hal@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
To: pcw@flyzone.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: <3.0.6.32.19990113195555.007eb580@mail.flyzone.com>
(pcw@flyzone.com)
Reply-To: hal@mit.edu
>>>>> In reply to the message of Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:55:55 -0500
>>>>> from pcw :
pcw> I vaguely remember reading several papers about matrix based public-key
pcw> systems back in the early 1980's. They were in Cryptologia, I think. This
pcw> idea doesn't sound too different, but my memory might be wrong. Can anyone
pcw> else offer any insight?
pcw> -Peter
I believe that one of these is a paper by Andrew Odzlyko. Sorry, I
don't have the reference here.
== Hal
