Re:How did governments lose control of encryption?
by Someone1234 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @04:05PM
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> That is an outright lie and the mere fact that this was published as truth shows the BBC is just a propoganda arm of the UK.
First off there's absolutely no propaganda benefit in that supposed lie.
Secondly they're trying to dumb down the history of public key cryptography, and what they mean by "once controlled by the state" is that James H. Ellis & Clifford Cocks discovered and implemented it in secret for the GCHQ in 1970-73. With Malcolm J. Williamson implementing the Diffie–Hellman key exchange in 1974.
In 1976 Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman released Diffie–Hellman key exchange to the non-classified world.
So what they said is right, if you specifically know they're talking about public key cryptography and know the history of it. It could have been better written.
First off there's absolutely no propaganda benefit in that supposed lie.
Secondly they're trying to dumb down the history of public key cryptography, and what they mean by "once controlled by the state" is that James H. Ellis & Clifford Cocks discovered and implemented it in secret for the GCHQ in 1970-73. With Malcolm J. Williamson implementing the Diffie–Hellman key exchange in 1974.
In 1976 Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman released Diffie–Hellman key exchange to the non-classified world.
So what they said is right, if you specifically know they're talking about public key cryptography and know the history of it. It could have been better written.