NODE 6e65fa81fast elliptical encryption
Karl L. Barrus <barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu>Wed, 21 Oct 92 13:44:45 PDT
In the winter NeXTWorld magazine, the article ("Tales from the Crypt")
on page 94 mentions various topics of interest: public key encryption,
export restrictions, the role of the NSA, etc. (It's just a one page
article and doesn't go into much depth).
Anyway, NeXTStep 3.0 is bundled with fast elliptical encryption for
NeXTMail. As a result, 3.0 is export restricted.
Does anybody know about the "fast elliptical encryption" public-key
system? How different is it from good ol' RSA? Is it related to the
elliptic-curve factoring algorithm (am I remembering this correctly -
I don't know how elliptic curve factoring works, but I remember seeing
a reference to it somewhere)?
Just curious...
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