Goodbye to the Creator of the Password, And Also Goodbye to Passwords?
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3 min readJul 16, 2019
Non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proofs for the equality (EQ) of discrete logarithms (DL)
In May 2019, the creator of the password — Fernando Corbato — died at the age of 93. He also worked on time-sharing methods within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).