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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. When encryption is outlawed... by shanen · · Score: 1, Troll

    So when will the FBI arrest them? After all, if you have nothing to hide from the government, then you don't need encryption. Wanting encryption proves you MUST be a criminal. Creating encryption makes you the accomplice.

    Even worse, if you want encryption you must be a future criminal planning how to hide the evidence!

    Actually, you better wave bye-bye to what little privacy is left. Even the multi-millionaires and billionaires can't buy privacy now. Ask Mitt Romney, eh?

    (Maybe I spoke too soon? I really wish everyone knew the truth about the big dick Cheney.)

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