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Whitfield Diffie

Diffie worked with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle on public-key cryptography and co-authored New Directions in Cryptography with Hellman.

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Diffie worked with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle on public-key cryptography and co-authored New Directions in Cryptography with Hellman.

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Key agreement addresses how parties establish shared secrets. It still needs appropriate assumptions about authentication and adversaries; a historical profile is not an implementation guide.

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  1. Diffie worked with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle on public-key cryptography and co-authored New Directions in Cryptography with Hellman.

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    • Whitfield Diffie — Computer History Museum — Fellow citation and cryptography biography
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  1. Whitfield Diffie — Computer History Museum

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