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Whitfield Diffie
"We stand today at the brink of a revolution in cryptography" -- the first sentence from the most famous cryptographic research paper ever written. In 1976 Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman discovered Public Key Cryptography which enabled the transformation of the ancient art of cryptography into a science. The consequences of their research have had huge implications to the everyday lives of billions of people around the globe. For instance, they provided the main concepts for the realisation of security in e-commerce, online banking, cable/satellite television, online stock trading, cloud computing, mobile phone communication, and many, many, many more applications.
In retrospect, Diffie and Hellman were standing on more than just the brink of a revolution in cryptography. It was the brink of a revolution in information technology, and public key cryptography was providing the bridge that allowed us to make it a reality. Welcome to the information age.
Whitfield Diffie
"We stand today at the brink of a revolution in cryptography" -- the first sentence from the most famous cryptographic research paper ever written. In 1976 Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman discovered Public Key Cryptography which enabled the transformation of the ancient art of cryptography into a science. The consequences of their research have had huge implications to the everyday lives of billions of people around the globe. For instance, they provided the main concepts for the realisation of security in e-commerce, online banking, cable/satellite television, online stock trading, cloud computing, mobile phone communication, and many, many, many more applications.
In retrospect, Diffie and Hellman were standing on more than just the brink of a revolution in cryptography. It was the brink of a revolution in information technology, and public key cryptography was providing the bridge that allowed us to make it a reality. Welcome to the information age.