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Re: The name of "RSA"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri Apr 9 12:25:57 1999
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19990409081336.3e0714cc@gate1.tomatoweb.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:03:28 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 11:12 AM -0400 on 4/9/99, John David Galt wrote:
> 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!
Wasn't there also public key talked about in a memorandum to Kennedy about
nuclear missle control?
Cheers,
RAH
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Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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