Pre-cursor to Non-Secret Encryption

2003-06-18 Thread John Young
James Ellis, GCHQ, in his account of the development of non-secret encryption credits a Bell Laboratories 1944 report on Project C-43 for stimulating his conception: http://www.cesg.gov.uk/publications/media/nsecret/possnse.pdf The Possibility of Secure Non-Secret Digital Encryption J. H.

Re: Pre-cursor to Non-Secret Encryption

2003-06-18 Thread Fredrik Henbjork
John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Ellis, GCHQ, in his account of the development of non-secret encryption credits a Bell Laboratories 1944 report on Project C-43 for stimulating his conception: http://www.cesg.gov.uk/publications/media/nsecret/possnse.pdf The URL above does not

Re: Pre-cursor to Non-Secret Encryption

2003-06-18 Thread Dave Howe
John Young wrote: James Ellis, GCHQ, in his account of the development of non-secret encryption credits a Bell Laboratories 1944 report on Project C-43 for stimulating his conception: However the concept seems familiar enough - unless I am missing something, a PRNG (n for noise rather than

Re: Pre-cursor to Non-Secret Encryption

2003-06-18 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
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