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As an interesting aside, it appears GCHQ had public key encryption almost a decade earlier (although not published until recently, of course).
by sonoffett 13y ago
As an interesting aside, it appears GCHQ had public key encryption almost a decade earlier (although not published until recently, of course).
- WildUtah 13y agoSome of the ideas involved were being used by NSA and GCHQ secretly before Diffie published. Experts including Diffie who have discussed it with the mathematicians in question conclude that nobody else had a full working system for it before Diffie published.