Birthdate: December 28, 1950
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Prestbury, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Clifford Cocks is a British mathematician and cryptographer known for developing an early public-key cryptography system while working at the United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in the early 1970s. His groundbreaking work was classified until 1997 when it was declassified, revealing its significance in the field of cryptography. Although his system did not impact commercial initiatives in Internet security established by 1997, it was technically aligned with well-known systems like the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and elements of the RSA algorithm.
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