Anyone know of a good accessible documentary or article on why public key cryptography is so revolutionary compared to all previous methods?
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later chapters of “The Code Book” by Simon Singh were pretty good on this point
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ah, saw your next tweet, never mind
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Not: oh what prime numbers can do a la Diffie-Hellman-Merkle but why it was a historical turning point that eased the path to globalization.
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I think there is a chapter in http://simonsingh.net/books/the-code-book/ … that mentions the key distribution hell it was before PKE.
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this piece by
@quinnnorton on Tor is close: https://pando.com/2014/12/09/clearing-the-air-around-tor/ … -
Thanks but that's not what I'm looking for at all.. (Also, Tor is not.. Well, anyway).
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Did you lose yer grad workers due to an improperly encrypted message or something ;-)
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have you read Simon singh's the code book? Has some background on this as I recall.
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This isn't bad. Sets the context in the aftermath of the Clipper Chip nicely. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/magazine/battle-of-the-clipper-chip.html?pagewanted=all …
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Also see
@MartinHellman OH http://ethw.org/Oral-History:Martin_Hellman … on BigDiffs of PublicKeySystems@SIGCIS@Cryptomeorg@ComSoc@StanfordThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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