The Columbia News article is misleading. It says that Diffie/Hellman did what thousands of goverenment agency researchers couldn't. Which is not quite right.
British mathematician James Ellis working for the British Communications - Electronic Security Group (CESG) independently conceived public key crypto in 1970.
I remember reading an interesting Wired magazine story on James Ellis, by Steven Levy.
Also, Bobby Inman of NSA claimed that NSA knew about public-key crypto 10 years before Diffie's discovery. Don't know how good this claim is.
Anycase, http://www.research.att.com/~smb/nsam-160/
has an interesting historical account of public key crypto .
Internap's chief software engineer calls their sub-optimal engineering solution to an NP-hard problem as a "new area of computer science". Haw Haw. The depths to which corporations will stoop to market their ideas:)
Most network/routing problems with multiple QoS goals are NP-hard or even NP-complete. It must be obvious to even a beginner in computer-networking science that in practice, one has to seek some sub-optimal, heuristic solution that works well in most practically occuring scenarios. Hardly a "new area of computer science".
well, how about Gregory Benford? The best hard science fiction writer I have read. Just read his "Timescape" to be convinced. Beautiful, the way the human side of that story is interwoven with the highly scientific discussions of relativity, quantum mechanics and time travel.
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But the obfustification of C++ is not so apparent. It's more sublimna..sublimina..subliminabable..
The Columbia News article is misleading. It says that Diffie/Hellman did what thousands of goverenment agency researchers couldn't. Which is not quite right.
British mathematician James Ellis working for the British Communications - Electronic Security Group (CESG) independently conceived public key crypto in 1970.
I remember reading an interesting Wired magazine story on James Ellis, by Steven Levy. Also, Bobby Inman of NSA claimed that NSA knew about public-key crypto 10 years before Diffie's discovery. Don't know how good this claim is.
Anycase, http://www.research.att.com/~smb/nsam-160/ has an interesting historical account of public key crypto .
Internap's chief software engineer calls their sub-optimal engineering solution to an NP-hard problem as a "new area of computer science". Haw Haw. The depths to which corporations will stoop to market their ideas :)
Most network/routing problems with multiple QoS goals are NP-hard or even NP-complete. It must be obvious to even a beginner in computer-networking science that in practice, one has to seek some sub-optimal, heuristic solution that works well in most practically occuring scenarios. Hardly a "new area of computer science".
well, how about Gregory Benford? The best hard science fiction writer I have read. Just read his "Timescape" to be convinced. Beautiful, the way the human side of that story is interwoven with the highly scientific discussions of relativity, quantum mechanics and time travel.