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Stefan Wolf (sw@cryptosoft.com)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:49:43 +0200
Vin McLellan wrote:
>
> At 10:44 PM -0400 6/23/98, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>
> >Does anyone have the URL of the original announcement, and the other stuff
> >that was eventually posted?
>
> Jame Ellis' paper, published last December by the British government, at:
> http://www.cesg.gov.uk/ellisint.htm
>
> There was also a brief but helpful NYT article by Peter Wayner, available
> at: http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/122497encrypt.html
>
> Suerte,
> _Vin
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Other releated papers may also be found at CESG's site:
The first demonstration of the ideas behind public-key techniques (which
their inventor James Ellis called Non-Secret Encryption) are described
in The Possibility Of Non-Secret Encryption by J.H.Ellis (1970)
(http://www.cesg.gov.uk/possnse.htm).
A few years later the first practical implementations of these
techniques came with the papers
A note on Non-Secret Encryption (http://www.cesg.gov.uk/notense.htm) by
C. Cocks (1973), which describes what we now call RSA,
Non-Secret Encryption Using A Finite Field
(http://www.cesg.gov.uk/secenc.htm) by M. Williamson (1974) , which is
essentially Diffie-Hellman, and
Thoughts on cheaper Non Secret Encryption
(http://www.cesg.gov.uk/cheapnse.htm) by M. Williamson (1976), which
details some improvements.
stay tuned,
stefan
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