Etymology

Needham-Schroeder protocol

Today it means: Either of two key transport protocols for use over insecure networks, one based on symmetric encryption (and forming the basis of Kerberos) and the other on public-key cryptography. Full definition →

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The story

Proposed by Roger Needham and Michael Schroeder.

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