Re: Any truth to rumor that NSA had Public Key Crypto first?
From: Joe Peschel (jpeschel_at_no.spam.org)
Date: 09/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:33:51 -0000
matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk (Matt) wrote in
news:94b59a36.0409290138.1ea7f0af@posting.google.com:
> Joe Peschel <jpeschel@no.spam.org> wrote:
>> matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk (Matt) wrote:
>>
>> > 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?
>
> I meant that Schneier probably intended to write "private" rather than
> "public" here.
>
Yeah, that seems to make more sense.
> Matt
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