From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
RSA
<cryptography, company> (The initials of the authors)
1. RSA Data Security, Inc.
2. Their cryptography systems, especially RSA encryption.
The RSA algorithm was first described in the paper:
[R. Rivest, A. Shamir, L. Adleman, "A Method for Obtaining
Digital Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems". CACM 21,2;
1978]
(1995-03-21)