Cayley Purser Algorithm
The Cayley Purser algorithm was published in early 1999 by Sarah Flannery, then 16, from Ireland . The algorithm was developed by her after the mathematician Arthur Cayley , named and by Michael Purser, the founder of the company. Baltimore.
According to Flannery, she got the idea for the new algorithm while doing an internship at Baltimore Technologies, a data security company based in Dublin .
The Cayley Purser algorithm is said to be 22 times faster than the RSA method because it uses simpler mathematical functions .
Flannery won first prize in a competition for young Irish scientists with the new algorithm , although (or because) she discovered a weak point in her process and published the analysis for it as well.
literature
- Sarah Flannery and David Flannery: In Code: A Mathematical Journey , ISBN 0-7611-2384-9
- Klaus Schmeh : Code breakers versus code makers , W3L Verlag Bochum, 2008, ISBN 978-3-937137-89-6