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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