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    Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS (born June 5, 1944) is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography...
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    public-key protocols as conceived by Ralph Merkle and named after Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman. DH is one of the earliest practical examples of...
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    known for his invention of public-key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman is a longtime contributor to the computer...
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  • The Diffie–Hellman problem (DHP) is a mathematical problem first proposed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the context of cryptography and serves...
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    nothing about each other. In 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman published a cryptographic protocol called the Diffie–Hellman key exchange (D–H) based...
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  • awareness: the first publicly available work on public-key cryptography, by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, and the US government publication of the Data Encryption...
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    cryptography standard in the United States. In 1976 Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman published the Diffie–Hellman key exchange algorithm. In 1977 the RSA...
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  • so was unknown to Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman. Whitfield Diffie, US, (public) co-inventor of the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol. Taher Elgamal, US...
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    in 1997. In 1976, an asymmetric key cryptosystem was published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman who, influenced by Ralph Merkle's work on public...
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  • presented by Whitfield Diffie, Paul C. van Oorschot and Michael J. Wiener in 1992. The historical context for the protocol is also discussed in Diffie (1988)...
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    current faculty, staff, and researchers who received the Turing Award: Whitfield Diffie: BS Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1965. Visiting...
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  • of an asymmetric public-private key cryptosystem is attributed to Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, who published this concept in 1976. They also introduced...
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  • Cryptography (PDF) Diffie, Whitfield; Hellman, Martin (1976), New directions in cryptography (PDF) den Boer, Bert (1988), Diffie–Hellman is as strong...
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  • fiber-optic communications, and Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie for their work in security - the Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The first award was given...
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  • The Diffie–Hellman key exchange and Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) are the most two widely used key exchange algorithms. In 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin...
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  • stories and novels Whitfield Crane (born 1968), American rock singer Whitfield Daukes (1877–1954), Anglican bishop Whitfield Diffie (born 1944), American...
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    secrecy" was coined by C. G. Günther in 1990 and further discussed by Whitfield Diffie, Paul van Oorschot, and Michael James Wiener in 1992 where it was used...
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    cryptography 2011 Computer History Museum Fellow "for his work, with Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, on public key cryptography." 2011 National Inventors...
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    Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis) 1994: Ivan Sutherland, Bill Atkinson, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lee Felsenstein...
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    describes his invention of public key cryptography with collaborators Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle at Stanford University in the mid-1970s. He also relates...
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  • (co-authors: Shimomura, Bruce Schneier, Ronald L. Rivest, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, Eric Thompson, Michael Wiener) (pdf) Week 10: "Hacking", North Carolina...
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    recommended by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier. CTR mode was introduced by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1979. CTR mode has similar characteristics to...
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    clergy's bankers. In the mid-1960s, he studied with cryptographer Whitfield Diffie at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from which he received...
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  • thought to be too small by some even in 1976, perhaps most publicly by Whitfield Diffie. There was suspicion that government organizations even then had sufficient...
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  • History of Colonial Brazil, 1500-1792 (1987) Whitfield Diffie, son Stuart B. Schwartz (1983). "Bailey W. Diffie (1902-83)". The Hispanic American Historical...
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    proposed in 1975, was that the key size was too short. Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie of Stanford University estimated that a machine fast enough to test...
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  • developed by James H. Ellis, Clifford Cocks, Malcolm J. Williamson, Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ralph Merkle, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman...
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  • : 465  : 190  The concept of public key cryptography was introduced by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976. At that time they proposed the general...
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    the import of cryptography FREAK Crypto wars "Munitions T-shirt". Diffie, Whitfield; Landau, Susan (2007), "The export of cryptography in the 20th and...
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  • Engineering. 9 (1): 85–100. doi:10.1007/s13389-018-0198-5. ISSN 2190-8508. Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau (1998). Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping...
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