Morningstar: Whitfield Diffie Joins American Binary's Advisory Board
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Whitfield Diffie
Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution—a fundamental problem in cryptography. Their techn…
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science · American cryptographer (born 1944) · cryptographer · mathematician · computer scientist · cryptologist · also Whitfield Diffie, Bailey Whitfield Diffie, Whit Diffie, W.Diffie, Bailey Diffie, Bailey Whitfield (Whit) Diffie
Born 5 June 1944 · Q462089
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For the development of public key cryptography and its applications
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (2020).
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2018· 1 entry
Joined Zhejiang University, China, as a visiting professor, Cryptic Labs generated 2 months course in Zhejiang University
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2017).
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For the invention of public key cryptography and for broader contributions to privacy
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Turing Award (2015).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded National Cyber Security Hall of Fame (2012).
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2011· 4 entries
Dark Reading: Dr. Whitfield Diffie Discloses Innovative Cryptographic Solutions At The Smart Grid Security Summit
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Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2011).
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2011).
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Diffie was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his work, with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle, on public key cryptography
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2010· 1 entry
Won IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2010).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded IACR Fellow (2004).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Marconi Prize (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (1999).
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1997· 2 entries
Won Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute (1997).
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A Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1998, and the IEEE Richard W
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Paris Kanellakis Award (1996).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of ETH Zürich (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Joined Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Menlo Park, California, as a distinguished engineer, working primarily on public policy aspects of cryptography
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1976· 2 entries
With Dennis Branstad of NBS and representatives of the National Security Agency
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Published “New directions in cryptography” in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory — cited 9,763 times.
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1965· 1 entry
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science (1965).
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-06-05.
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