

Thanks for an interesting article!
Personally I think that this is a prime example of the cultural difference in intelligence work between the US and the old Soviet Union, and it’s creating trouble today.
To compress the reasoning: the US, with the success of Magic and Ultra in WWII the US went all…
Yes it would be nice, but this column really isn’t about apportioning credit for breakthroughs but contextualizing the discoveries to discuss what’s happening today. As for the GHCQ work, the point is that even though Ellis et al did work on what we now recognize as public key, it was like it never happened, because none of it was available to even…