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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: RSA Discussion and Speculation
Message-ID: <10233@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 15 Apr 88 02:30:51 GMT
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Keywords: RSA algorithm wanted

} You could probably still order a copy from MIT press or LCS
} 
} 	Laborator for Computer Science
} 	545 Technology Square
} 	Cambridge, Massachusetts
} 	02139
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} 	"A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key
} 	Cryptosystems"; Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, Len Adleman;
} 	LCS/TM82; April 4, 1977 (revised Dec 12, 1977)

The same paper was published in the February 1978 issue of Communications
of the ACM, which any technical library should have.  A year or two
earlier, Martin Gardner published an excellent explanation in Scientific
American.  New editions of Knuth, Vol. 2., discuss it as well.