By 1997 broader public key cryptography commercial technologies had been independently developed and had become well established, in areas such as email security, digital signatures, and TLS (a fundamental TCP/IP security component) etc. Most notably in 1977 the RSA algorithm had been developed (equivalent to Cocks's system) and by 1997 was extremely well established.
By 1997 broader public key cryptography commercial technologies h,ad been independently developed and had become well established, in areas such as email security, digital signatures and TLS (a fundamental TCP/IP security component) etc. Most notably in 1977 the RSA algorithm had been developed (equivalent to Cocks's system) and by 1997 was extremely well established.