Ron Rivest recounts how the 1976 Diffie-Hellman paper inspired the creation of RSA
PolarBearby · x · 2026-09-03
The ACM shares a video of Ron Rivest telling the story of how the 1976 Diffie-Hellman paper inspired him, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman to develop RSA, one of the most influential cryptosystems in computing history.
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