Side note: Diffie-Hellman predates RSA. I attended a talk by Rivest once, where he vividly described how that paper triggered them into exploring whether public

Side note: Diffie-Hellman predates RSA. I attended a talk by Rivest once, where he vividly described how that paper triggered them into exploring whether public key crypto was really possible or not. They ended up constructing RSA from those sessions.