Read more: Major Scientific Discoveries That Happened By Accident RSA — named after its creators, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman — is an asymmetric or public key encryption ...

You probably haven’t heard of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, or Leonard Adleman, but their RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) public-key cryptography system underpins just about all modern encryption.

A group of top cryptography experts gathered on Tuesday at the RSA conference in San Francisco ... and Weizmann Institute of Science professor Adi Shamir suggested that the rise of cloud computing ...