Re: Any truth to rumor that NSA had Public Key Crypto first?

From: Joe Peschel (jpeschel_at_no.spam.org)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:15:59 -0000

matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk (Matt) wrote in
news:94b59a36.0409280201.3b8121aa@posting.google.com:

> Schneier's comment that "almost all of the encryption
> algorithms--public-key cryptography, in particular--can trace their
> roots back to DES." was presumably a typo?
 
What sort of typo?

J 

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