In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Young writes: > >Related: We have a three-year-old FOIA request to NSA for >information on: > > The invention, discovery and development of "non-secret > encryption" (NSE) and public key cryptography (PKC) by > United Kingdom, United States, or any other nation's > intelligence and cryptology agencies, prior to, parallel with, > or subsequent to, the PKC work of Diffie-Hellman-Merkle. > >NSA has recently said that some responsive information >may be released in the near future, although it is not clear if >that is weeks or months or years away. >
Can you amend that to ask for digital signature information, too? From my research on Permissive Action Links, I think there's some chance that digital signatures were invented separately, possibly by NSA before GCHQ's non-secret encryption work. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]