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Inventors of public-key cryptography win 2016 Turing Award
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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