Riddle Me This: Famous Asymmetric-Key Algorithm Inventors and Their Contributions to Cryptography

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Taken from the Greek words meaning a hidden secret, Cryptography is the hiding of information through ciphers, codes, and keys.

Modern cryptography includes computer-generated codes and deciphers.

A cryptographer is a decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms.

Asymmetric-key algorithms are a class of algorithms for cryptography that are used to create a mathematically related key pair: a secret private key and a published public key.

This book seeks out the most famous Asymmetric-Key Algorithm Inventors such as David Chaum, Whitfield Diffie, Pascal Paillier, and others.

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