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Re: Pre-cursor to Non-Secret Encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jun 18 11:19:46 2003
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To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:07:56 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
In message <E19SR38-0001Qe-00@blount.mail.mindspring.net>, 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
> intelligence and cryptology agencies, prior to, parallel with,
> or subsequent to, the PKC work of Diffie-Hellman-Merkle.
>
>NSA has recently said that some responsive information
>may be released in the near future, although it is not clear if
>that is weeks or months or years away.
>
Can you amend that to ask for digital signature information, too? From
my research on Permissive Action Links, I think there's some chance
that digital signatures were invented separately, possibly by NSA
before GCHQ's non-secret encryption work.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
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