Tag: public-key-cryptography

Neal Koblitz and Victor Miller independently proposed using elliptic-curve groups for public-key cryptography, opening a path to strong security with comparatively compact keys.

Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman produced a concrete public-key system based on modular arithmetic and the difficulty of factoring, giving encryption and digital signatures a practical implementation path.

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman reframed cryptographic key distribution by showing how communicating parties could establish secrets without first sharing a secret key, opening the modern era of public-key cryptography.