Ask anyone interested in cryptography about public-key cryptography, and the names of Diffie, Hellman, Murkle, Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman will quickly arise. They're the inventors of the concept of public-key cryptography as most of us know it.
Well, maybe not. If this article is accurate, apparently the British government developed public-key cryptography independently and several years earlier than the six listed above. The narrative sounds plausible to me, though of course I have no personal knowledge of any of it...
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