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Whitfield Diffie, cryptography pioneer, celebrated on birthday

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Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer in cryptography, is celebrated for his foundational work on asymmetric public-key cryptography and practical key-exchange methods. He was awarded the ACM Turing Award in 2015 for these contributions, which have applications in digital signatures. Diffie attributes his early interest in cryptography to the counterculture movement of the 1960s. AI

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Whitfield Diffie, cryptography pioneer, celebrated on birthday

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    Happy Birthday, Whitfield Diffie! Diffie received the 2015 # ACMTuringAward for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key cryptography, including it

    Happy Birthday, Whitfield Diffie! Diffie received the 2015 # ACMTuringAward for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method. Diffie says the counterculture o…

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