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Re: names to say in late september
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Thu Jul 27 18:04:33 2000
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:46:46 -0500
To: Rodney Thayer <rodney@tillerman.to>, cryptography@c2.net
From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: rodney@knownsafe.com
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At 07:05 AM 7/27/00 -0700, Rodney Thayer wrote:
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>I suggest "Rivest Public Key", or 'RPKey'. It's not the prettiest
>buzzword I've ever
>suggested, but is there something better to call it?
There's already an RPK, which (if I recall correctly) is based on doing
Diffie-Hellman with shift registers. So this might be confusing.
What about just expanding the acronym: The Rivest Shamir Adleman public key
system.
--John
