All of this stuff is so new so we'd expect to see churn. Many people involved in the discovery that asymmetric crypto was even possible (Diffie, Hellman, Rivest

All of this stuff is so new so we'd expect to see churn. Many people involved in the discovery that asymmetric crypto was even possible (Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, etc) are still alive. If the people that first invented bridges were still alive we'd be running into all kinds of failures in bridge building techniques. Bridges have been built in the last 100 years that the wind blew down!