Stephen Pohlig
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Stephen Pohlig is an electrical engineer currently working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. As a graduate student of Martin Hellman
's at Stanford University
in the mid-1970's, he helped develop the Pohlig–Hellman exponentiation cipher and the Pohlig–Hellman algorithm for computing discrete logarithm
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Martin Hellman
Martin Edward Hellman is an American cryptologist, and is best known for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle...
's at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in the mid-1970's, he helped develop the Pohlig–Hellman exponentiation cipher and the Pohlig–Hellman algorithm for computing discrete logarithm
Discrete logarithm
In mathematics, specifically in abstract algebra and its applications, discrete logarithms are group-theoretic analogues of ordinary logarithms. In particular, an ordinary logarithm loga is a solution of the equation ax = b over the real or complex numbers...
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