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>>>>> "Rex" == Rex Ballard  writes:

  Rex> OOPS, I'm being stupid today.  I was going on memory of work I
  Rex> did with both back in 90/91.  I remembered the 8 bytes, I
  Rex> forgot about the parity bits.  Back in those days RSA was not
  Rex> publishing the algorythm because they weren't sure they could
  Rex> protect their intellectual property rights.

  Rex> Please forgive my senility :-)

Senility forgiven, but I think you're still quite confused. The RSA
algorithm was published in the Communications of the ACM in 1978. It's
been public since then.

Jeremy


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