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>>You should be able to get a copy through MIT Press.  The first edition was
>>400 copies which ran out quickly (they had 4000 requests).  The Federal
>>government censored the paper for a while, and MIT had to go to court to
>>be able to print further copies.  (My copy is 2nd edition).
>>
>>
>>		-ed falk, sun microsystems
>
>This paper was later published in the CACM.  There is nothing in the
>published article which indicates it was censored in any way.
>The reference is:
>
>     A Method for Obtaining digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems
>     by R.L. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adleman
>     Communications of the ACM
>     February 1978
>     Volume 21, number 2
>     pp 120-126

For a while it was completely suppressed.  The NSA or CIA or somebody
prevented the second edition from being published because of "national
security" -- they didn't want a cryptosystem out in the world that they
were incapable of breaking.  In my opinion, that's the best endorsement
RSA could have.  Eventually MIT was able to publish.  This is either
an example of the freedom of the press winning out over the secret police
mentality, or it means the the NSA found a way to break it.

		-ed falk, sun microsystems
terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO.
(The above is food for the NSA line eater.)