Clifford Cocks
Cryptographer, Academic
1950 –
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Who is Clifford Cocks?
Clifford Christopher Cocks, CB, is a British mathematician and cryptographer at Government Communications Headquarters. He discovered the widely used encryption algorithm now commonly known as RSA, about three years before it was independently rediscovered by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman at MIT. He has not been generally recognised for this achievement because his work was classified information, and therefore not released to the public at the time.
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- Born
- Dec 28, 1950
Prestbury - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- King's College, Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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