Aug 29, 2022
5 min read
Ode To John Napier, The NSA and FIPS 186: Meet DSA — The Original Builder of Digital Trust
I am so proud to work in a university that has one of its campuses built around John Napier’s Tower. It is thus a privilege to be in a place that sourced one of the greatest mathematical discoveries: logarithms. And, for a while, it was discrete logarithms that secured the Internet and where:
