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Here's another example, James Ellis, who came up with the idea of public key cryptography: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html http://www.wir
by nico 17y ago
Here's another example, James Ellis, who came up with the idea of public key cryptography: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html
(HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064931 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064931)
- jgrahamc 17y agoI'm not sure he counts as an amateur. He was employed to do this sort of thinking, it was just done in secret.