Researching Clifford Cocks
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1990 people with the Cocks surname? In that year Cocks was ranked number 1840 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Clifford means "From a steep cliff" and is of English origin.
Records of Clifford Cocks on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Clifford Cocks and the Cocks Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 2251 people with the Cocks surname in the UK? Cocks is now ranked number 2192 for popularity in the UK. |
Cocks Family History Databases
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Some Famous People called Clifford Cocks
Clifford Cocks
Clifford Christopher Cocks CB FRS (born 28 December 1950) is a British mathematician and cryptographer.In 1973, while working at the United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), he invented a public-key cryptography algorithm equivalent to what would become (in 1978) the RSA algorithm.
The idea was classified information and his insight remained hidden for 24 years, although it was independently invented by Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in 1977. Public-key cryptography using prime factorisation is now part of nearly every Internet transaction.
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