Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, is Vice President and Sun Fellow and has been at Sun since 1991. As Chief Security Officer, Diffie is the chief exponent of Sun's security vision …

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 …

Diffie was a “resident guest” researcher at MIT’s Project MAC’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, founded by renowned artificial intelligence scientists Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, spending more time …

Dec 5, 2025 · The results of their work appeared in Diffie and Hellman's paper, New Directions in Cryptography, in November 1976. The insights in this paper underpin secure transactions on the …

A native of Tulsa, OK, Diffie is a member of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 25 years. A star athlete in high school, he originally set his sights on a …

Dr. Whitfield Diffie, a globally renowned pioneer, is best known for co-discovering of the concept of public key cryptography, which underlies the security of internet commerce and all modern secure …

Diffie is a Marconi fellow and the recipient of a number of awards including the National Computer Systems Security Award (given jointly by NIST and NSA) and the Franklin Institute's Levy Prize.

Click on the steps of a Diffie-Hellman key exchange to see the values of the variables as they are chosen and computed. In the dashed boxes the information known to Alice and Box and the …

Dr. Whitfield Diffie is the co-inventor of public key cryptography, pioneering dual-key cryptography in the early 1970s. Before writing the 1976 paper, “New Directions in Cryptography,” with Martin Hellman, …

Jul 18, 2024 · The Diffie-Hellman key exchange was the first Public Key Cryptography developed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976. It's a key exchange algorithm that allows two parties to …