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There's a very amusing epilogue in Steven Levy's "Crypto" [0] about the fact that either RSA or Diffie-Hellman (I've forgotten which) was in fact known to the i
by _dps 6y ago
There's a very amusing epilogue in Steven Levy's "Crypto" [0] about the fact that either RSA or Diffie-Hellman (I've forgotten which) was in fact known to the intelligence services for 10+ years prior to its re-discovery among public researchers. These are people who are very good at keeping secrets.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digital/dp/0140244328 https://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digi...
- schoen 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classified_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classi... Both, but neither for as long a period of time beforehand as you remember.
- _dps 6y agoAha! Good correction, thank you. I must have been remembering how long the discovery remained classified, not how long it predated the public discovery.