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Whitfield Diffie

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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.


— Whitfield Diffie


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Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.


— Whitfield Diffie


#application #clever #concern #cryptography #deep

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.


— Whitfield Diffie


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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.


— Whitfield Diffie


#mathematics #problems #science #simple #solutions

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.


— Whitfield Diffie


#came #campus #city #france #i

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.


— Whitfield Diffie


#communications #cryptography #did #expect #expected

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.


— Whitfield Diffie


#distinction #distinctions #i #make #much

Two people can work on a problem better than one.


— Whitfield Diffie


#people #problem #than #two #two people






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He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and did graduate studies at Stanford University. An audio recording survives of their review of DES at Stanford in 1976 with Dennis Branstad of NBS and representatives of the National Security Agency. Hellman) the The Franklin Institute's Louis E.

Diffie and Martin Hellman's paper New Directions in Cryptography was publiWhitfield Diffied in 1976. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys that went far toward solving one of the fundamental problems of cryptography key distribution.

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