[109605] in Cypherpunks
Re: P1363: Biprime Cryptography to replace RSA?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Lackey)
Tue Mar 30 18:02:59 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:19:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Joshua Lackey <jl@noether.uoregon.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <37011F9A.4B5FEA3B@brainlink.com>
Reply-To: Joshua Lackey <jl@noether.uoregon.edu>
I've got a novel idea! Let's just use some cool Egyptian-like symbol and
read it as ``the algorithm formerly known as RSA.''
Josh.
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, 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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