Mathematician:Bailey Whitfield Diffie
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Mathematician
American mathematician and cryptographer.
One of the pioneers of public-key cryptography
Inventor with Martin Edward Hellman and Ralph Charles Merkle of the technique of public key cryptography.
Inventor with Martin Edward Hellman of the trapdoor function.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: June 5, 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States
Theorems and Definitions
- Trapdoor Function (with Martin Edward Hellman)
- Diffie-Hellman-Merkle Key Exchange (with Martin Edward Hellman and Ralph Charles Merkle)
Definitions of concepts named for Bailey Whitfield Diffie can be found here.
Publications
- 1976: New Directions in Cryptography (with Martin Edward Hellman)
Also known as
Usually uses the name Whitfield, or, informally, Whit.