uplinks:: Public-key Cryptography
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History of Public Key Cryptography
- James Ellis, from British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Concept of public key encryption, 1969.
- Ralph Merkle, “Secure communication over insecure channels”, 1982.
- Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, “New Directions in Cryptography”, 1976.
- Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, the RSA cryptosystem, 1978.
- Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman, Knapsack cryptosystem, 1978.