Non Secret Encryption

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Buonasera,
volevo segnalarvi, per chi ancora non l'avesse visto, un link apparso=20
recentemente su cryptome: http://cryptome.org/nsa-nse/nsa-nse-01.htm

"The National Security Agency has released under FOIA nine crypto papers=20
in response to a request for informaton on Non-Secret Encryption filed=20
in October 1999 <http://cryptome.org/nsa-foia-recap.htm>. Three of the=20
papers were formerly classified Top Secret Codeword, one was formerly=20
classified Secret and were declassified for this request"

I paper in oggetto sono:

"Elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC)"
"The authentication problem" (J. H. Ellis)"The story on non-secret=20
encryption" (J. H. Ellis)"An Identity Based Public Key System" (Clifford=20
Cocks)"Modular PKI Status Report"
"A Digital Signature Scheme Constructed with Error-correcting Codes"
"A New Public-key Cryptosystem based on k-th power Residues"
"Appendix: VII: Public Key systems"
"A Proposal for Unclassified Public Key Signature and Key Exchange=20
Standards"

Riguardano essenzialmente la storia e lo sviluppo della crittografia a=20
chiave asimmetrica e, com'=E8 facile intuire, alcuni dei nomi relativi a=20
questi scritti sono stati oscurati.
John Young, autore della richiesta, ha successivamente inviato un=20
appello per ricevere altre informazioni in merito:

"This is an appeal of a denial of access by Louis F. Giles, Director of=20
Policy, dated February 13, 2007, for information deleted from documents=20
provided and nine documents (163 pages) withheld in their entirety on=20
the topic of non-secret encryption, better known as public key=20
cryptography (PKC). The material provided by Mr. Giles has been=20
published on the website Cryptome.org."

Saluti,
Giulia Biagini




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