> What is more crazy is that RSA (or something comparable to that) was discovered in parallel also by another mathematician working for a government agency 4 ye

> What is more crazy is that RSA (or something comparable to that) was discovered in parallel also by another mathematician working for a government agency 4 years prior to the RSA algo Cocks, Ellis and Williamson at GCHQ: https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic-History/Historical-Figures/Historical-Figures-View/Article/3006218/clifford-cocks-james-ellis-and-malcolm-williamson/ https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic-History/Historical-F... An interview with Cocks and Ralph Benjamin: https://www.zdnet.com/article/gchq-pioneers-on-birth-of-public-key-crypto/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/gchq-pioneers-on-birth-of-publ...