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Is the following sentence regarding RSA accurate?

It was developed in the mid 1970's and once widely used but has now been replaced by other improved methods. - ABliss

To my knowledge, RSA is still widely used - for instance, in SSL - but it is not as good as many other alternatives. Diffie-Hellman, for one, is much stronger and has fewer available attacks against it. It was developed in 1977, according to this. Webfork