Whitfield Diffie
An American cryptographer, Whitfield Diffie introduced the concept of public-key cryptography with Martin Hellman: their 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography, which presented the Diffie–Hellman key exchange, underpins the security of internet communications. The two shared the 2015 Turing Award for this work. He was Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems and argued for the right to use encryption in the book Privacy on the Line. He is a consulting scholar at Stanford’s CISAC.
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