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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 along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle.
Whitfield Diffie is a consulting scholar at CISAC. He was a visiting scholar in 2009-2010 and an affiliate from 2010-2012. He is best known for the discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, in 1975, which he developed along with Stanford University Electrical Engineering Professor Martin Hellman.
Whitfield Diffie is a cryptography pioneer who invented and promulgated public-key cryptography and digital signatures. He received the ACM Turing Award in 2015 for his contributions and collaborations with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle.
Learn about Whitfield Diffie, the co-discoverer of public key cryptography and the 2016 Turing Award winner. Explore his legacy, publications, patents and public policy contributions in cybersecurity and privacy.
Dr. Whitfield Diffie is a globally renowned pioneer in computer security, best known for his 1975 joint invention of Public-Key Cryptology. Public Key now underlies all secure electronic commerce and stimulated development of an entirely new class of encryption process.
May 22, 2024 · Biography. Whitfield Diffie was born on 5 June 1944 in Washington, D.C. to Bailey Wallys Diffie, a professor of history at the City College of New York, and Justine Louise Whitfield, a writer and expert on Madame de Sévigné.
Mar 1, 2016 · Stanford cyber-security innovators Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, who brought cryptography from the shadowy realm of classified espionage into the public space and created a major breakthrough that enabled modern e-commerce and secure communications over the Internet, are being honored with the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2015 A....
