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To: Neocon who started this subject	5/1/2002 3:42:10 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) of 3246

The computer development owes some credit to Max Newman, a Bletchly Park mathematician. He designed Colossus, a programmable code breaking device (with 1500 electronic valves) that was actually built (through the efforts of Tommy Flowers, an engineer) in 1943 and used to defeat the Lorenz cipher. The machine and it's blueprints were destroyed for the sake of secrecy, thus ENIAC, which also used electronic valves was long considered the mother of all computers. A similar story for privacy encryption exists where public credit is given to RSA (Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman) although a British group, working for GHCQ, Ellis, Cocks, and Williamson came up with the same essential solution in 1975. Due to the internet's popularity and importance in the business world, encryption of information is a prime driver in it's growth and may merit a place on the list.

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