re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#55 NSA foils much internet encryption
other trivia ... ECC original invented Miller at IBM Yorktown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S._Miller followed by Koblitz at UofW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Koblitz Miller had been in the Yorktown 801 group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_801 ... some old email mentioning 801 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801 unrelated old crypto email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crypto I had been at IBM San Jose research ... and had lots of latitude to do things around San Jose ... including allowed to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15 ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk and support world-wide online sales&marketing HONE in palo alto ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone also past posts mentioning original sql/relational http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr however, I was blamed for online computer conferencing ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc on the internal network (larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until late '85 or possibly early '86) in the late 70s and early 80s ... folklore is that when executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. some past posts about internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet possibly as part of punishment, the made me report to Yorktown ... but allowed me to live&work in san jose ... although I had to commute to ykt a couple times a month. recent posts realizing in the late 80s that there were three kinds of crypto http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#77 German infosec agency warns against Trusted Computing in Windows 8 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#88 NSA and cryptanalysis -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
