Whitfield Diffie
American cryptographer and mathematician
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Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Wikipedia
Born: 1944 (age 79 years), Washington, D.C.
Awards: Turing Award, Marconi Prize, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, and more
Education: Stanford University (1975–1978), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1965), and Jamaica High School
Spouse: Mary Lynn Fischer
Known for: Diffie–Hellman key exchange
Parents: Justine Louise Whitfield and Bailey Wallace Diffie
