Merkle, Ralph

Merkle, Ralph. Nanotechnology. Available online. URL http //www. 

MerkSO Ralph C. Merkle Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems 1980 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society lYess, 122-134. 

Merk88 Ralph C. Merkle A digital signature based on a conventional encryption function Crypto 87, LNCS 293, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1988, 369-378. 

The concept of public key cryptography was originally proposed in 1976 by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Heilman, and independently by Ralph Merkle. In 1997, Britain s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) released previously classified documents revealing three British government employees, James Ellis, Clifford Cocks, and Malcolm Williamson, developed these same ideas several years earlier, but kept them secret for reasons of national security. There is some evidence that the United States National Security Agency (NSA)... 

Ereitas, Robert A., Jr., and Ralph C. Merkle. Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines. Georgetown, Tex. Landes Bioscience, 2004. A review of the theoretical and experimental literature on the subject of self-replicating machines. Discusses the prospects for laboratory demonstrations of such machines. 

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