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