Whitfield
Diffie
Year
1997
Subject
Computer and Cognitive Science
Award
Levy
Citation
For invention of public key cryptography and digital signatures.
Recipient of the Louis E. Levy Medal, along with Martin Hellman, for their combined contributions to the field of cryptology, including the invention of a new method of enciphering termed public key cryptology, in which two people can communicate in secret without needing a pre- arranged secret key.
Whitfield Diffie currently works as a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems. His interest in cryptology began in 1966 while working at the MIT artificial intelligence laboratory.
Information as of 1997