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Crypto Gurus Diffie, Hellman Win 2015 Turing Award (networkworld.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the congratulations dept.

alphadogg writes: Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, whose names have been linked since their seminal paper introduced the concepts of public key encryption and digital signatures some 40 years ago, have been named winners of the $1M A.M. Turing Award for 2015 (a.k.a., the 'Nobel Prize of Computing'). The work of Diffie, formerly chief security officer of Sun Microsystems, and Hellman, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University, has had a huge impact on the secure exchange of information across the Internet, the cloud and email.

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  1. Re:A very well deserved award by sconeu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I attended Hellman's talk in 2014 at "Pohlfest" (celebrating Ira Pohl on his retirement). Hellman flat out said that a Three Letter Agency tried to censor him.

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  2. Can't think of more deserving recipients by Phil+Karn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really can't think of more deserving recipients. I've never met Hellman, but I've met Diffie a few times, including when we testified to the Senate Commerce Committee during the 1990s Crypto Wars. He's a national asset whenever the NSA and FBI get a little too far out of line. Which is most of the time.