Re: Pre-cursor to Non-Secret Encryption

2003-06-19 Thread Francois Grieu
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 wor

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

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 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 d