From 96ca2bee17ed10565edb2fe8db4910b9103e40cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Busby Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 21:50:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add Ralph C. Merkle's PhD Thesis with Hash Function --- _people/ralph-c-merkle.md | 1 + _sources/technical-sources.md | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/_people/ralph-c-merkle.md b/_people/ralph-c-merkle.md index 72e20e6..4b0fc09 100644 --- a/_people/ralph-c-merkle.md +++ b/_people/ralph-c-merkle.md @@ -19,5 +19,6 @@ From wikipedia: * [Ralph C. Merkle on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle) * Apr 1978 merkle.com - [Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems](http://www.merkle.com/papers/Protocols.pdf) * Apr 1978 merkle.com - [Secure Communications over Insecure Channels](http://www.merkle.com/1974/Puzzles1975.12.07.pdf) +* Jun 1979 merkle.com - [Secrecy, Authentication, And Public Key Systems](http://www.merkle.com/papers/Thesis1979.pdf) - _this is his PhD thesis, where he proposed the cryptographic hash function_ * 27-Oct-2013 Gideon Samid on Youtube - [Ralph Merkle: Privacy Between Strangers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKpkM7Zeb6U) * 25-Jul-2016 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB141 – Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvzpvXLbpv4) diff --git a/_sources/technical-sources.md b/_sources/technical-sources.md index d6caff2..37409ad 100644 --- a/_sources/technical-sources.md +++ b/_sources/technical-sources.md @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Many of these I collated via [nakamotoinstitute.org](https://nakamotoinstitute.o * Feb 1978 people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/ - [A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems](http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rsapaper.pdf) by Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard M. Adleman * Apr 1978 merkle.com - [Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems](http://www.merkle.com/papers/Protocols.pdf) by [Ralph C. Merkle](/people/ralph-c-merkle) * Apr 1978 merkle.com - [Secure Communications over Insecure Channels](http://www.merkle.com/1974/Puzzles1975.12.07.pdf) by [Ralph C. Merkle](/people/ralph-c-merkle) +* Jun 1979 merkle.com - [Secrecy, Authentication, And Public Key Systems](http://www.merkle.com/papers/Thesis1979.pdf) by [Ralph C. Merkle](/people/ralph-c-merkle) - _this is his PhD thesis, where he proposed the cryptographic hash function_ * 1981 Research Paper - [Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/untraceable-electronic-mail.pdf) by [David Chaum](/people/david-chaum) * 1982 Research Paper - [Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments](http://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurityFall2011/Chaum-blind-signatures.PDF) by [David Chaum](/people/david-chaum) * Jul 1982 lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs - [The Byzantine Generals Problem](http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf) by Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease