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Inventors of RSA win Turing Award

Posted by michael on Tuesday April 15, 2003 @06:13AM 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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Re:What about Koblitz and Miller? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-15 09:48 · Score: 2, Insightful

AFAIK each and every elliptic curve algorithm is patended in US and I am glad that they are not widely used. Patended RSA was enough. Petrhaps in 5-10 years when the patents expires?