Re: Any truth to rumor that NSA had Public Key Crypto first?
From: Roger Schlafly (rogersc1_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/28/04
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:11:47 -0700
"Matt" <matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> It is quite possible, but there's no (or little) evidence. According
> to one website, "Bobby Inman, when director of NSA, claimed (without
> substantiation) that NSA had had public key crypto a decade earlier
> than Diffie and Hellman." --
> http://www.research.att.com/~smb/nsam-160/
There is now some substantiation. "decade" is an exaggeration,
but NSA did know of some similar ideas from British spooks
a few years earlier. Eg, see:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html
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