The Yaksha security system

A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems

Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard M. Adleman · Communications of the ACM · 1983 · 13.1K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Authentication +15

A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems

Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard M. Adleman · Communications of the ACM · 1978 · 13.1K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Authentication +15

Applied cryptography: Protocols, algorithms, and source code in C

Bruce Schneier · Computer Law & Security Report · 1994 · 3.4K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +12

Using encryption for authentication in large networks of computers

Roger M. Needham, Michael Schroeder · Communications of the ACM · 1978 · 2.4K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +17

Kerberos: an authentication service for computer networks

Clifford Neuman, T. Ts'o · IEEE Communications Magazine · 1994 · 1.3K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +12