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		shabble on Aug 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' NSA Cryp... You may be thinking of the Ellis/Cocks/Williamson[1] invention of the RSA encryption and Diffie-Hellman key-exchange algorithms several years prior to their open publication. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis

lifeisstillgood on Aug 30, 2013 [–]

Yes thank you - too punchy to remember anything useful that late at night.

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