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Re: Biprime Cryptography to replace RSA?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed Mar 31 16:56:03 1999
Date: 31 Mar 1999 21:42:50 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990331233157.32491A-100000@bbs.c2.org>
Bluefish [@ home] writes:
> > I would propose "Biprime Cryptography" or "BPC" as the generic term for
> > RSA. Biprime is a natural and appropriate English name for the product of
> > two primes.
>
> There are other "biprimes" too,
BiPrime Factoring. BPF (no, not Berkeley Packet Filter!)
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