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Inventors of public-key cryptography win 2016 Turing Award

Posted on March 4, 2016 by

Cryptography pioneers receive ACM A.M. Turing award In “New Directions in Cryptography,” Diffie and Hellman presented an algorithm that showed that asymmetric or public-key cryptography was possible. In Diffie and Hellman’s invention, a public key, which is not secret and … Continue reading →

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