Whitfield Diffie
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title:
Whitfield Diffie
text:
Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution—a fundamental problem in cryptography. Their technique became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The article stimulated the almost immediate public
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American cryptographer (born 1944)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie
date created:
2004-01-11T21:38:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T10:20:52Z
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