[Cryptography] RSA is dead.
Kent Borg
kentborg at borg.org
Wed Jan 22 09:13:11 EST 2014
On 01/21/2014 06:30 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> By the '90s, its reputation was dirt. Because, other than what was
> known or
> suspected about DES, every action they took was to inhibit public use of
> cryptography.
Data point: I still have my old "Cyber Rights Now!" t-shirt, with a
raised fist clutching lighting bolts on one side, and on the other side
an observing eye and apology from the NSA about being behind schedule
for 1984.
At least with some of us, their reputation was terrible by 1984.
-kb
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