Gustavus J. Simmons
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Former Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Manager, Applied Mathematics Department, 1971–87. Researcher in command and control of nuclear weapons. Author of numerous articles on cryptology and authentication.
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Public-key cryptography, asymmetric form of cryptography in which the transmitter of a message and its recipient use different keys (codes), thereby eliminating the need for the sender to transmit the code and risk its interception. It is commonly used in cryptocurrency transactions. In 1976, in…
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