[Cryptography] Happy birthday, Clifford Cocks!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Dec 27 22:06:51 EST 2018


Clifford Cocks CBE FRS was born on this day in 1950; when working for GCHQ 
he discovered RSA before they did, but couldn't announce it because it was 
an official secret.

-- Dave


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