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.

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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.