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Re:Why does my SSH private key still work after changing som... by timthorn on Saturday December 31, 2022 @05:08AM (#34195117)
> What is more crazy is that RSA (or something comparable to that) was discovered in parallel also by another mathematician working for a government agency 4 years prior to the RSA algo

Cocks, Ellis and Williamson at GCHQ: https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic-History/Historical-F...

An interview with Cocks and Ralph Benjamin: https://www.zdnet.com/article/gchq-pioneers-on-birth-of-publ...

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