cr.yp.to update

[email protected] 22 May 2006 06:23:06 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 transposition.html |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -ru .old-crypto/transposition.html cr.yp.to/transposition.html
--- .old-crypto/transposition.html	2004-10-11 19:50:02.000000000 -0400
+++ cr.yp.to/transposition.html	2006-05-17 20:33:17.000000000 -0400
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
 4617x = 4105x + 512x,
 9298x = 4617x + 4617x + 64x,
 31415x = 4097x + 4105x + 4617x + 9298x + 9298x).
-<h2>History of the transposition principle</h2>
+<h2>Inventions and reinventions of the transposition principle</h2>
 1956:
 One can build electrical circuits to perform linear computations.
 <a href="bib/entries.html#1956/bordewijk">Bordewijk</a>
@@ -320,7 +320,11 @@
 Fiduccia had published years earlier
 (never mind Bordewijk),
 so Kaminski, Kirkpatrick, and Bshouty don't deserve any credit.
-<h2>Revisionist history of the transposition principle</h2>
+<p>
+I don't claim that this list is comprehensive:
+for example,
+a paper of Fischer and Warsitz lists several Jac(f) references going back to 1970.
+<h2>Misattributions of the transposition principle</h2>
 A few people credit the transposition principle to Tellegen:
 <ul>
 <li>