While doing some research on the history of hashing for a client I discovered that it is described in the very first edition of the ACM journal and the paper is a translation of a Russian paper.
One of the many problems with the ITAR mindset is the assumption that all real ideas are invented inside the US by white men wearing white lab coats and that the rest of the undeserving world is stealing them. Anyone with any grasp of history recognizes that the industrial scale industrial espionage practiced by China on the industrial powers is merely DIY reparations for the 19th century and the first half of the 20th.
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