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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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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Right; most of our texts are about keys. It's like talking about the printing press by discussing movable type mechanics.
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No sources, but one would think not having to share a secret key might have been significant.
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Vernor Vinge's _A Fire Upon The Deep_ has a.fictional treatment, public key crypto is still a topic of discussion in 200k years
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(the aliens have magical computers so they all have a good laugh that the human still believes in PK crypto)
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This is one of the best articles on the topic http://passcode.csmonitor.com/cypherpunk
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