[Cryptography] 40 years of "Diffie-Hellman"
Tony Arcieri
bascule at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 20:29:39 EDT 2016
http://cryptologicfoundation.org/learn/educate/bytes/this_day_in_history_calendar.html/event/2016/06/23/1466658000/1976-diffie-and-hellman-presented-public-key-exchange-idea-/98292
Of course, the historically savvy crypto-enthusiast recognizes the
algorithm we call "Diffie-Hellman" was actually invented by Malcolm
Williamson at GCHQ in 1974:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_J._Williamson
He died last September. RIP.
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Tony Arcieri
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