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Re: names to say in late september
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Thu Jul 27 11:46:48 2000
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:21:34 -0700
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: Rodney Thayer <rodney@tillerman.to>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 07:05:38AM -0700, Rodney Thayer wrote:
> What shall we call
> that-public-key-algorithm-that-will-not-be-patent-protected in late
> September? we should not use a trademarked or copyrighted term, in my
> opinion.
> There was discussion of this a while ago, I think. I don't recall what
> was around.
>
> I suggest "Rivest Public Key", or 'RPKey'.
Too close to "RPK".
> It's not the prettiest
> buzzword I've ever
> suggested, but is there something better to call it?
"The algorithm formerly known as RSA"?
In Singh's "Code Book", he relates a story where Aldeman
insisted to Rivest that his (Aldeman's) name be last on the paper...
Ron had originally had it in alphabetically order.
Perhaps "ASR" might then be appropriate?
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