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Rich Schroepell responds to Ron Rivest and the RSA MIT algorithm (1977)


TIL Alice and Bob were almost Adolf and Bertholdt. Rich Schroepell responds to Ron Rivest and the RSA paper in 1977 and suggests naming the protagonists Adolf...

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