Re: Any truth to rumor that NSA had Public Key Crypto first?
From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow_at_eatspam.btinternet.com)
Date: 09/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:07:42 +0000 (UTC)
"Bill Unruh" <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message
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[snip]
> Sure it is. Reading the literature is not enough to make you competent in
> the area. Thus, the public is almost certainly way ahead of NSA in quantum
> crypto. Of course that may not matter, since quantum crypto is still
pretty
> useless as a practical area, but all the reading NSA does will not make
> them into good quantum experimentalists.
But it will have told them whose phone to tap.
Andrew Swallow
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