Whitfield Diffie

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computer scientist cryptographer human

Whitfield Diffie is an American cryptographer best known as a pioneer of public-key cryptography, whose work revolutionized secure digital communication.

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Label	Occurrences
Whitfield Diffie canonical	15
Bailey Whitfield Diffie	2
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Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	computer scientist ⓘ cryptographer ⓘ human ⓘ
activeInPeriod	20th century ⓘ 21st century ⓘ
awardReceived	Franklin Medal ⓘ surface form: Franklin Institute Award IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal ⓘ Marconi Prize ⓘ Turing Award ⓘ
birthName	Whitfield Diffie self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Bailey Whitfield Diffie
coAuthor	New Directions in Cryptography ⓘ
coAuthorWith	Martin Hellman ⓘ
coInvented	Diffie–Hellman key exchange ⓘ
coInventedWith	Martin Hellman ⓘ Ralph Merkle ⓘ
contributedTo	development of digital signatures ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1944-06-05 ⓘ
educatedAt	Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
employer	Northern Telecom ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ Sun Microsystems ⓘ
familyName	Whitfield Diffie self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Diffie
fieldOfWork	computer security ⓘ cryptography ⓘ information security ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	Bailey ⓘ
hasCitizenship	American ⓘ
hasOccupation	academic ⓘ computer security researcher ⓘ cryptographer ⓘ
influenced	modern Internet security protocols ⓘ public-key infrastructure design ⓘ
knownFor	pioneering public-key cryptography ⓘ revolutionizing secure digital communication ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
memberOf	Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ
notableIdea	separation of encryption and decryption keys ⓘ
notableWork	Diffie–Hellman key exchange ⓘ public-key cryptography ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Washington, D.C. ⓘ surface form: Washington, D.C., United States
positionHeld	Chief Security Officer at Sun Microsystems ⓘ
receivedTuringAwardWith	Martin Hellman ⓘ
residence	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
subjectOf	biographical and historical works on cryptography ⓘ
turingAwardFor	invention of public-key cryptography ⓘ

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Turing Award → hasNotableRecipient → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

Whitfield Diffie → familyName → Whitfield Diffie self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Diffie

Whitfield Diffie → birthName → Whitfield Diffie self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bailey Whitfield Diffie

Martin Hellman → coInventedWith → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

Martin Hellman → receivedTuringAwardWith → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

Martin Hellman → coAuthoredWith → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

Diffie–Hellman key exchange → introducedBy → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

Chief Security Officer at Sun Microsystems → heldBy → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

New Directions in Cryptography → author → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

New Directions in Cryptography → coAuthorWith → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

Harold Pender Award → notableRecipient → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

Hellman → namedAfter → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

subject surface form: Diffie–Hellman key exchange

Bailey → familyName → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

subject surface form: Bailey Whitfield Diffie

this entity surface form: Diffie

Bailey → birthName → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

subject surface form: Bailey Whitfield Diffie

this entity surface form: Bailey Whitfield Diffie

Bailey → knownAs → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

subject surface form: Bailey Whitfield Diffie

Merkle → coInventedWith → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

subject surface form: Ralph Merkle

Marconi Society → hasNotableAwardRecipient → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

Computer History Museum Fellow Award → hasRecipient → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ

Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin → hasNotableAlumnus → Whitfield Diffie ⓘ