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The name of "RSA"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John David Galt)
Fri Apr 9 11:28:56 1999

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 08:12:51 -0700 (PDT)
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: John David Galt <jdg@rahul.net>

Can anyone tell us the names of the original British inventors of public key?
Granted that R, S, & A didn't plagiarize, but if they no longer want their
names used this way, perhaps their predecessors should get the honor instead!

John David Galt


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