[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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