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Poor Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman always seem to have gone out of their way to acknowledge his contribution to public key encryption, but it looks like the
by pklausler 11y ago
Poor Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman always seem to have gone out of their way to acknowledge his contribution to public key encryption, but it looks like the ACM overlooked it.
- fjarlq 11y agoACM did at least acknowledge Merkle in 1996, along with Adleman, Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, and Shamir, in the inaugural Paris Kanellakis Award[1]. Merkle has an article on his website about the history of his public-key cryptography work[2]. [1] http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/merkle_4605383.cfm http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/merkle_4605383.cfm [2] http://www.merkle.com/1974/ http://www.merkle.com/1974/