[Cryptography] Happy birthday, Adi Shamir!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Jul 5 19:10:44 EDT 2017


We gained cryptographer Adi Shamir in 1952; he is the "S" in RSA, the 
algorithm that underpins Internet financial transactions, and a 
co-inventor of differential cryptanalysis (which the NSA had known about 
for years, but couldn't say so).

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


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