[YZF]

The story that I remember going around is that they each made some millions of dollars. That was a lot of money at the time for academics. I audited a cryptography course given by Adi Shamir in the early 90's and you couldn't tell he was rich though.

[tptacek]

I mean, I'm sure it turned out great for them, but their reputation definitely isn't rooted in their business acumen.