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- 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
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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.
-