Talk:Taher Elgamal

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[edit] spelling

See Talk:Pretty Good Privacy#Copied from User talk:Jdcc for a discussion of how Dr Elgamal spells his name. Since the article is now correct, we should probably change the title to be correct also. But this involves a lot of links and changing them. does anyone want to undertake this? In the meantime, there's now a redirect page pointing here from Taher Elgamal. ww 23:31, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Should it then be Elgamal discrete log cryptosystem instead of ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem, too? Stern 21:23, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

In my view yes. The gentleman should certainly be able to choose how to spell his own name, especially when the differences amongst the various versions is not likely to lead to confusion. ww 17:11, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I disagree; clearly, if someone changes their name, the biography article should reflect that. However, if a widely used artifact is named after someone, and they subsequently change their name, we should then use the most widely-used version of the name of the system, whether or not that matches up with the person's new name. — Matt 17:18, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Agree with Matt. Have his biography at Taher Elgamal, but the system named after him should be at ElGamal encryption. —Lowellian (reply) 03:25, 20 October 2005 (UTC)