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

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 09/29/04

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    Date: 29 Sep 2004 16:32:46 GMT

    George Ou <533george_ou234@netzero234.com> writes:

    ]On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:20:10 +0200, Twan van der Schoot
    ]<twanvdsN.OSPA-M@xs4all.nl> wrote:

    ]<SNIP>
    ]Your response is very logical.

    ]>BTW: The simplicity and elegance of DH & RSA are so great, that it
    ]>doesn't diminish the achievement of D, H, R, S, and A the least. Even
    ]>when schemes similar to theirs have been invented before.
    ]>
    ]>Twan van der Schoot

    ]Amen to that. Isn't that why they got their patents?

    No, they got their patents because the prior inventions were unknown, and
    because their scheme was new. The simplicity, elegance had nothing to do
    with their patents, and had the patent office known they had been invented
    before they would not have gotten their patent.

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