Read this many years ago and can't remember who it was about. Nor can I remember the exact quote. Been trying to look this up for the last hour; my Google-Fu is pretty strong but their SNR is very poor on searches related to these terms. (Apologies in advance if the SE mods can't handle this que...

I'm going to be teaching a lesson about asymmetric cryptography to US high school students who have no background in Computer Science, specifically the way that public key cryptography is used while browsing the web. The typical example that you'd see when reading a book about public key crypto i...