James H. Ellis
James Henry Ellis (25 September 1924 – 25 November 1997) was a British engineer and cryptographer. In 1970, while working at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham he conceived of the possibility of "non-secret encryption", more commonly termed public-key cryptography.
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