In a message dated: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 14:03:46 EDT
"Kevin D. Clark" said:
>
>To throw some more fuel into the fire:
>
>A few years ago it was disclosed that other people had come up with
>the idea of public key cryptography long before Diffie-Hellman: for
>example, a guy named James Ellis came up with the idea in 1970.
>
>For more info, look here:
>
>http://www.cesg.gov.uk/about/nsecret.htm
>
>Various NSA folks have claimed to have the idea even before 1970, but
>there's little hard evidence of this...yet.
Right, James Ellis came up with it while working for British Intelligence.
He was prevented from going public with this for reasons
of "National Security". The only others who knew about this was the NSA.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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