[Cryptography] Happy birthday, Ralph Merkle!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Feb 1 14:34:36 EST 2017


Ralph Merkle, co-inventor of public key crypto, was born today in 1952.  
Do you buy things online, with your credit card?  Then you can thank Ralph 
Merkle for making it reasonably safe; he also invented crypto hashing.

(Notice that I said "reasonably" safe; it's always a risk.)

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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