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This dimension names the person or team credited with an algorithm's own development. Wikipedia notes that computer science spans "theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory)," whose named contributors are often the same people credited with a given algorithm. Browsing this way collects every algorithm credited to the same author.

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Era of Emergence
1900 BCE 1
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Adi Shamir

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Bart Preneel

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Bruce Schneier

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Carlisle Adams

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Claus Schnorr

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Cynthia Dwork

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Daniel J. Bernstein

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David Chaum

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David Wheeler

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Donald Davies

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Eli Biham

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Félix Delastelle

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Fritz Nebel

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Horst Feistel

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Howard Heys

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James L. Massey

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John Viega

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Lenore Blum

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Manuel Blum

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Martin Hellman

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Michael O. Rabin

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Mihir Bellare

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Mitsuru Matsui

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Moni Naor

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Poul-Henning Kamp

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Ralph Merkle

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Roger Needham

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Ron Rivest

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Ross J. Anderson

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Stafford Tavares

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Taher Elgamal

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Vincent Rijmen

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Whitfield Diffie

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Yael Tauman Kalai

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Cryptography
WikipediaCryptography, History section, earliest-use sentence
Quote, Cryptography, History section, earliest-use sentence
The earliest known use of cryptography is some carved ciphertext on stone in Egypt (c. 1900 BCE), but this may have been done for the amusement of literate observers rather than as a way of concealing information.
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