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Publishing a new idea
- bentoner 15y agoThis is `the amazing story of how Merkle proposed public-key cryptography as a class project in grad school, and the professor described it as a “muddled terribly”, and then he submitted it to CACM, which rejected it because it was “outside of the mainstream of cryptographic thinking.”' [As related by Gilles Brassard via Aram Harrow. See http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=5728 http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=5728]