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Re:A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography by jsmith99 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:30AM (#22986670)
> I still remember in one of the classes when Boneh was talking about the Diffie-Hellman protocol he paused to ask us, "Do you know where this was invented?" Nobody knows, then he pointed to his left and said, "In a room a few yards from here".

Boneh works at GCHQ?

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Re:A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography by cryptbe on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:40PM (#22989124)
DH was invented at Stanford.

RSA was allegedly invented at GCHQ.

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Re:A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography by jsmith99 on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:21PM (#22998441)
Both were allegedly discovered at GCHQ:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_J._Williamson

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