the r in rsa is ron rivest who was responsible for some very elegant ideas. his papers, that i've read, are generally very simple and clear. but he also wrote

the r in rsa is ron rivest who was responsible for some very elegant ideas. his papers, that i've read, are generally very simple and clear. but he also wrote md2 [an old hash, n longer used] which contains some "magic numbers" that no-one can explain. they are supposed to be derived from pi, but no-one knows how... http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/11935/how-is-the-md2-hash-function-s-table-constructed-from-pi http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/11935/how-is-the-m... (i even emailed him, but was shrugged off; i know it's silly and paranoid, but...) anyway, i wonder what happens now to all the customers that use rsa dongles? big, international, political organisations...