[109601] in Cypherpunks
Re: P1363: Biprime Cryptography to replace RSA?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Mar 30 17:20:35 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:36:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: sunder@brainlink.com, jf_avon@citenet.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
Hey, I think we're all heading towards the same inevitable conclusion
that the algorithm should in fact be called "The Algorithm Formerly
Known As RSA." After that, of course, it could be shortened simply
to "The Algorithm." When's the first album coming out?
At 02:01 PM 3/30/99 -0500, Sunder wrote:
>You could always call it RealSlowAlgorithm and spell it out rather than using
>the initials...
>
>Are there trademark on Rivest, Shamir and Adleman's names? If not, we could
>call it by their last names out of order. i.e.: "The Algorithm developed by
>Adleman, Rivest, and Shamir" A bit klunky though...
>
>The liberated version of RC4 became "ARC4", maybe somthing similar. RSA sounds
>like URSA, but URSA contains RSA... Modulo Exponent Algorithm? Any other
>thoughts?
>
>Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>>
>> Couldn't it be called R.S.A. ? There are specific rules for 'what's in a
>name'.
>
>
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