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Quite the roster of names behind the article.

The first name that stood out to me was Ron Rivest, of RSA, MD5, and public-key cryptography fame.

Also Whitfield Diffie, of Diffie-Hellman fame.

His partner went on to make some pretty good mayonnaise, too!

Martin Edward Hellman, electrical engineer, was born in 1945.

Richard Hellman started selling jars in 1912. No remote relation apparent. (Specifying just in case of doubt, especially for those unfamiliar with the brand.)

You skipped over Whitfield Diffie to find someone of public-key cryptography fame, lol. You might like his work too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie

Hal Abelson, first name there, is from the computer science classic SICP book/MIT lecture series - https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussm...

> You skipped over Whitfield Diffie

don't forget Steven M. Bellovin who's on that list and who was one of the inventors of the first Encrypted Key Exchange, a precursor to the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange.

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