Public Key Encryption
James Ellis
Name : James Ellis
(1924 - 1997)
Not to be confused with another famous James Ellis in the computing world, the
creator of Usenet.
Place of work :
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Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, UK
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GCHQ Cheltnam, UK
Education :
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Physics - Imperial Collage
Personality :
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An excentric character described by a colleague Richard Walton as : "...a
rather quirky worker, he didn't really fit into the day-to-day business of
GCHQ. But in terms of coming up with new ideas he was quite exceptional."
Publication of his initial report (origionally top-secret) :
The Possibility of secure non-secret digital encryption
Publication of the report on the early history of NSE for "historical accuracy"
: The history
of Non-Secret Encryption
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