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Inventors of RSA win Turing Award

Posted by michael on from the yay dept.

Frisky070802 writes "The NY Times has an article on how Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman (the inventors of the eponymous RSA public-key encryption algorithm) have won the ACM's Turing award for contributions to computer science. You mean they didn't win already?"

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  1. What?? by orthogonal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Inventors of RSA win Turing Award

    So, like, the ACM committee talked to Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman over a teletypewriter and were convinced that all three were human?

    Or does this mean that each of the three are, at any one time, in only of of a finite number of possible states, and can compute any computable function with their (poissibly infinite length) tapes?

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  2. Stop the presses! by rjh · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have found a truly remarkable proof that RSA is insecure, but the margin of this comment is too small to contain it.

    ( ... with a nod-of-the-head to Fermat and Wiles.)