Dr. Whitfield Diffie

(2000) Sun Microsystems Laboratories

"For their invention of public-key cryptography to protect privacy on the Internet"

Presented by: Chairman Martin Meyerson of The Marconi Foundation; President John Jay Iselin of that foundation at Columbia University, New York City

Dr. Diffie and Professor Hellman developed the public-key cryptography system in 1976. The advent of public-key cryptography, and the Diffie-Hellman algorithm for key exchange, allows the secure transmission of information over the Internet. Dr. Diffie is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and Professor Hellman is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

Bibliographies

Home Page

Dr. Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer PUC / Security Group

Bibliography Diffie: Whitfield.html

Lord of the Keys, Interview with ETH Life

Profile in Wired Magazine

Hellman, Diffie � Conversation, SecuritySearch.com