Turing Award — Inventors of Modern Cryptography Win $1 Million Cash Prize

And the Winners of this year's Turing Award are: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman. The former chief security officer at Sun Microsystems Whitfield Diffie and the professor at Stanford University Martin E. Hellman won the 2015 ACM Turing Award, which is frequently described as the "Nobel Pri...

Q&A: Cloud Security with Former Sun CSO

The recent ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop in Chicago was devoted specifically to cloud security. Speakers included Whitfield Diffie, a cryptographer and security researcher who, in 1976, helped solve a fundamental problem of cryptography: how to securely pass along the “keys” that unlock...

Google Internet Summit 2009: Security Session

Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public-key cryptography, moderates a panel of security experts, including Howard Schmidt, Steve Crocker, Chris DiBona and Eric Grosse, discussing a variety of security topics...