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Article #2771Re: PGP - Legal?
From: Steven Bellovin
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 14:20
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 14:20
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In article <1993Jan5.030228.10817@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes: > My impression is that the key modern breakthroughs are in public > key crypto systems, including RSA, and that those were invented > mostly by Americans (not sure if Shamir is Israeli or American). > My impression is that the non-U.S. developments are essentially > derivative, elaboration, etc. > > This is not an argument but a request for information. Am I mistaken? Yes, very much so. Pick up any copy of CRYPTO 'nn -- or better yet, EUROCRYPT, or AUSCRYPT, or -- well, you get the picture. (And if you don't get it, I'm sure most of the other readers of this newsgroup do, especially those who aren't Americans.) Yes, Americans have done well in cryptography. So have a lot of others. I won't bore -- and insult -- the readership by trying to assign proportional credit to different nationalities.
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!uwm.edu!linac!att!att!dptg!ulysses!ulysses!smb From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) Subject: Re: PGP - Legal? Message-ID: <1993Jan5.142021.25442@ulysses.att.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:20:21 GMT References: <1993Jan4.041714.1156@qualcomm.com> <9301041919.AA12056@chaos.intercon.com> <1993Jan5.030228.10817@netcom.com> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17