On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 19:56:19 +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote > On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 05:48:51PM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:12:16AM +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > > > > People knew how to decrypt RSA before it was released. Just saying. > > > > The NSA has said it knew about the algorithm before R, S and A discovered > > it. That's all. And if we accept that Wikipedia and blogs are not the > > ultimate thruth, then the next question must be: where do *you* get the > > information from on which your claims are based, and what makes you > > think it is more reliable ? > > And GCHQ knew about it in the 1950s, apparently.
Apparently? AFAIK Clifford Cocks discovery and the internal GCHQ paper date from 1973 (the paper is available online, IIRC). Cheers RalfD > -- > Gordonjcp MM0YEQ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
