Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!godman From: godman@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.crypt Subject: Re: Four key public cryptography? Message-ID: <37600001@uiucdcs> Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 20:34:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.37600001 Posted: Tue Jan 28 20:34:00 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jan-86 05:38:10 EST References: <12900001@ccvaxa> Lines: 5 Nf-ID: #R:ccvaxa:12900001:uiucdcs:37600001:000:206 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!godman Jan 28 19:34:00 1986 This seems to me to be very similar to the RSA public-key cryptosystem proposed by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman (thus, the name: RSA). I believe the paper was published in early 1978 in the J of the ACM.