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Whitfield Diffie
Also Known As Bailey Whitfield Diffie · Whit Diffie · W.Diffie · Bailey Diffie · Bailey Whitfield (Whit) Diffie
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American cryptographer who, with Martin Hellman, published the 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography, introducing public key cryptography and a practical method for two parties to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel. He and Hellman shared the 2015 Turing Award. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardNational Inventors Hall of Fame 2 AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society 2 AwardNational Cyber Security Hall of Fame 2 AwardIEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal 2 AwardLouis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute 2 AwardOrder of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class 2 AwardComputer History Museum Fellow 2 AwardIEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award 2 Awardhonorary doctor of ETH Zürich 2 Whitfield Diffie
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Whitfield Diffie co-authored the 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography with Martin Hellman that introduced the key exchange protocol bearing their names.
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman's 1976 New Directions in Cryptography paper first proposed the concept of a digital signature.
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Wikimedia FoundationEarly life and education
His interest in cryptography began at age 10 when his father, a professor, brought home the entire crypto shelf of the City College Library in New York.
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Bailey Whitfield Diffie, born June 5, 1944, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Invented: Public Key Cryptography, Public discovery (public-key-cryptography article)
In 1976, an asymmetric key cryptosystem was published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman who, influenced by Ralph Merkle's work on public key distribution, disclosed a method of public key agreement.
In Field: Information Security, Awards and honors section
Diffie and Hellman's groundbreaking 1976 paper, "New Directions in Cryptography," introduced the ideas of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, which are the foundation for most regularly-used security protocols on the internet today.
- In Group: Applied Cryptography, lead sentence: Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS (born June 5, 1944) is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key crypt
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