[Cryptography] Happy birthday, Ralph Merkle!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Feb 1 15:46:39 EST 2018


Ralph Merkle, co-inventor of public key crypto, was born on this day 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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