[geeks] How old am I and where do I come from...

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:24:32AM -0500, Geek wrote:
> According to my research(admittedly, only Crypto by Steven Levy) Ron
> Rivest came up with the RSA algorithm on April 3rd, 1977. Am I wrong?

Yep.  James Ellis proved that public-key crypto was possible in 1970.
C. Cocks described an implementation that is just about identical to RSA
in 1973.

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