My thought exactly - how weird it must be to be inside looking out.
Public key crypto was discovered on the inside long before it was rediscovered on the outside, and I figure that the insiders must have been amused by Diffie, Hellman, R, S, and A.
In 1997, it was publicly disclosed that asymmetric key algorithms were developed by James H. Ellis, Clifford Cocks, and Malcolm Williamson at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in the UK in 1973.[4] These researchers independently developed Diffie–Hellman key exchange, and a special case of RSA. The GCHQ cryptographers referred to the technique as "non-secret encryption". This work was named an IEEE Milestone in 2010.[5]
Public key crypto was discovered on the inside long before it was rediscovered on the outside, and I figure that the insiders must have been amused by Diffie, Hellman, R, S, and A.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#History
In 1997, it was publicly disclosed that asymmetric key algorithms were developed by James H. Ellis, Clifford Cocks, and Malcolm Williamson at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in the UK in 1973.[4] These researchers independently developed Diffie–Hellman key exchange, and a special case of RSA. The GCHQ cryptographers referred to the technique as "non-secret encryption". This work was named an IEEE Milestone in 2010.[5]