Cayley–Purser algorithm

The Cayley - Purser algorithm was published by the then 16 - year-old Sarah Flannery from Ireland in early 1999. The algorithm was named after the mathematician Arthur Cayley and after Michael Purser, the founder of the company Baltimore, named by her.

According to Flannery, she had the idea for the new algorithm during an internship at the firm Baltimore Technologies, a company for data security and headquartered in Dublin.

The Cayley - Purser algorithm is supposed to be 22 times faster than the RSA algorithm as it uses simpler mathematical functions.

Flannery has won with the new algorithm, the first prize in a competition for Irish young scientists, even though (or because) they discovered a weak point in their process, and also published the analysis to do so.