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	Whitfield Diffie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whitfield Diffie took cryptography out of the hands of the spooks and made privacy possible in the digital age - by inventing the most revolutionary concept in encryption since the Renaissance.
		She had read the groundbreaking 1976 paper by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman that introduced public key cryptography, but felt a true frisson two years later when encountering the article by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman that proposed a practical implementation of the concept.
		Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public key encryption, summed up the technological politics of cryptography best last year when he said in Congressional hearings on Clipper: "It is in no way obvious that the freedom to have a private conversation will survive."
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/people/whitfield_diffie (474 words)

	The Global CSO Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whitfield Diffie is vice-president and Fellow at Sun Microsystems, where he has been employed since 1991.
		Diffie and Susan Landau are joint authors of the Book “Privacy on the Line”, which examines the politics of wiretapping and encryption and won the Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research and the IEEE-USA award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession.
		Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965, and was awarded a Doctorate in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992.
	www.csocouncil.org /bios/diffie.php (193 words)

	The Key to Security: A Conversation with Sun's Chief Security Officer, Whitfield Diffie
		Whitfield Diffie is a rarity, a person who has gained nearly legendary status in his lifetime.
		Diffie's groundbreaking insight was to split the key in two, to have a matching private and public key that have a mathematical relationship.
		To implement public key cryptography, Diffie and his colleague, Martin Hellman, drew upon a procedure in mathematics known as one-way functions, by which it is possible to transform data in such a way that it cannot, practically speaking, be untransformed.
	java.sun.com /developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/diffie_qa.html (2378 words)

	CNN Transcript - CNN Movers: Whitfield Diffie's Brilliance Changed Face of Cryptography - April 8, 2000
		DIFFIE: What we saw was a whole lot of computers taken over, and what I said to the president that resonated with him is that this isn't though you've lost an election, because a lot of people voted against you, and they didn't even know they'd voted; somebody voted for them.
		Diffie's historical role in the debate between privacy advocates and the government is somewhat ironic.
		DIFFIE: Well, when I was 10, when I was in the fifth grade, I had a teacher named Mary Collins who spent one afternoon teaching us about simple substitutions, and I had a brief interest in the subject, and my father brought me all the books in the City College library.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0004/08/mld.00.html (2775 words)

	Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: Cyber warrior's public crusade for privacy 02/01/99
		Whitfield Diffie, at a Cafe in Palo Alto, Calif., has for 20 years bumped heads with the National Security Agency, which he considers a foe of personal privacy on the Internet.
		Diffie was born in 1944 in the Queens borough of New York City, where, he says, he didn't learn to read until he was 10.
		Diffie and Hellman made names for themselves by publicly criticizing an NSA-developed encryption program for banks and corporations that they said was purposely made weak so that the NSA could crack the code if it wanted to access private corporate data.
	www.augustachronicle.com /stories/020199/tec_privacy.shtml (1287 words)

	Crypto
		Diffie's demeanor toward Mary dramatically improved, and she was not just startled but saddened when one day in 1971 he told her that he was going to travel for a while.
		Bailey Whitfield Diffie was born on the eve of D-Day, June 5, 1944.
		Diffie's mother was the former Justine Louise Whitfield, a stockbroker's daughter from Tennessee who met her husband while working in the foreign service in Spain.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/l/levy-crypto.html (7873 words)

	Wired 2.11: Prophet of Privacy
		Then there's his unforgettable voice: Diffie speaks in a cutting tremolo that heightens the effect of his words, which are often already provocative.
		Diffie has a chance to exercise these vocal proclivities as he jaunts from booth to booth, happily bantering with the purveyors of surveillance systems, crypto-protected jeep communications, and "situation awareness" helmets with built-in quanta-ray sensors.
		It was a profound discovery; historian David Kahn (still in tow as Diffie leaves the booth) called it "the most revolutionary new concept in the field since the Renaissance." A pursuit formerly limited to the domain of spies, diplomats, and the military now had the potential to enhance the privacy of the masses.
	wired.com /wired/archive/2.11/diffie.html?person=whitfield_diffie&... (790 words)

	Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Diffie is a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and the inventor of public-key cryptography (software that encodes a document with one key and deciphers it with another); Landau is a research associate professor in the department of computer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
		Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public-key cryptography, is Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Susan Landau is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
		For those out of the crypto loop, the lead author, Whitfield Diffie was co-developer of public key encryption technology at Stanford several decades ago and stands as one of the most knowledgeable figures in the field of cryptography.
	www.pcprotection.ca /books-reviewed/0262541009.html (1785 words)

	Diffie-Hellman key exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The scheme was first published publicly by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976, although it later emerged that it had been discovered a few years earlier within GCHQ, the British signals intelligence agency, by Malcolm J. Williamson but was kept classified.
		Diffie-Hellman key agreement was invented in 1976 during a collaboration between Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman and was the first practical method for establishing a shared secret over an unprotected communications channel.
		While that system was first described in a paper by Diffie and me, it is a public key distribution system, a concept developed by Merkle, and hence should be called 'Diffie-Hellman-Merkle key exchange' if names are to be associated with it.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Diffie-Hellman (1163 words)

	Speaker Biographies
		Whitfield Diffie, who is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, has occupied the position of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems since 1991.
		Diffie is a graduate in mathematics of MIT and Dr. sc.
		Diffie is a fellow of the Marconi Foundation and author, jointly with Susan Landau, of the book Privacy on the Line.
	www.epic.org /events/Oct22/speakers.html (758 words)

	Crypto-Politics: Decoding the New Encryption Standard
		Sun Microsystems' Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, veterans in the battle for strong private cryptography, predict the AES will be widely adopted by commerce as well as government agencies.
		Diffie, who just received the prestigious Marconi award for his path-breaking invention of public key encryption, is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories and a defender of privacy for over a quarter century.
		Diffie and Landau observe that at every turn, these efforts were opposed by a formidable alliance: personal privacy advocates and business.
	research.sun.com /features/encryption (2136 words)

	04/17/02 - SUN MICROSYSTEMS APPOINTS WORLD-RENOWNED SECURITY EXPERT, WHITFIELD DIFFIE, AS CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER; ...
		Whitfield Diffie, world-renowned authority on cryptography and security technology, joined Sun in 1991 after twelve years as manager of secure systems research at Northern Telecom.
		Diffie, working in Sun Labs, was one of the driving forces in the policy struggle that has led to legal recognition for the importance of advanced security technologies for modern society.
		Diffie is also famous as the inventor of the Public Key Encryption concept that underlies secure electronic commerce and is recognized in security and intelligence circles worldwide as an authority on information technology security issues.
	www.sun.com /smi/Press/sunflash/2002-04/sunflash.20020417.2.html (758 words)

	Privacy on the Line (Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau)
		After this "digression", Diffie and Landau return to the history of privacy in the United States.
		A final chapter argues that technological advances have on the balance put law enforcement and national security in a stronger position, not a weaker one, and that even with wiretapping the effects are mixed.
		Diffie and Landau conclude that "government efforts to keep honest citizens from using cryptography to protect their privacy continue.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Privacy_Line.html (430 words)

	Salon \| 21st: Fending off Big Brother
		As Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau compellingly demonstrate in "Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption," advances in communications technology have granted government snoops and spooks unprecedented access to the intimate details of our daily lives.
		It's also all too easy to accuse it of bias; co-author Diffie is one of the original creators of public key cryptography, a particular form of encryption technology crucial to the process of putting powerful privacy tools into public hands.
		Diffie and Landau do address, once, the issue of whether the FBI and the NSA might actually be justified by their fears that widespread access to cheap, uncrackable cryptography could lead to an upsurge in criminal activity.
	archive.salon.com /21st/books/1998/03/12books.html (834 words)

	Internet Society (ISOC) All About ISOC: Conferences - NDSS 1999
		Whitfield Diffie, who holds the position of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, for which he was awarded a Doctorate in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992.
		For a dozen years prior to assuming his present position in 1991, Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom, functioning as the center of expertise in advanced security technologies throughout the corporation.
		Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965.
	www.isoc.org /isoc/conferences/ndss/99/speakers.shtml (391 words)

	DBLP: Whitfield Diffie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whitfield Diffie, Paul C. van Oorschot, Michael J. Wiener: Authentication and Authenticated Key Exchanges.
		Whitfield Diffie: The Adolescence of Public-Key Cryptography (Abstract).
		Whitfield Diffie, Melville Klein, Michael L. Dertouzos, Andrew Gleason, Dean Smith: National Security and Commercial Security: Division of Responsibility.
	informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/d/Diffie:Whitfield.html (185 words)

	Security Pipeline \| News \| Web Services Are Biggest Security Challenge
		SAN FRANCISCO -- Web services are the major challenge for network security in the 21st Century, because they require users to routinely run code and data on machines that the users don't control, said Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer for Sun Microsystems.
		These will be the major problems for secure computing in the same way that encryption and secure operating systems dominated computer security in the 20th Century.
		Diffie also said that client-server computing, for all its security flaws, represents a great advance in computer security.
	nwc.securitypipeline.com /showArticle.jhtml?articleID=21800144 (816 words)

	Dr. Whitfield Diffie
		Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, is Vice President and Sun Fellow and has been at Sun since 1991.
		Diffie is a fellow of the Marconi Foundation and is the recipient of awards from a number of organizations, including IEEE, The Electronic Frontiers Foundation, NIST, NSA, the Franklin Institute and ACM.
		Prior to assuming his present position in 1991, Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom, where he designed the key management architecture for NT's PDSO security system for X.25 packet networks.
	research.sun.com /people/diffie (310 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 12/07/2003: "Whitfield Diffie hacks an RFID badge" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If your badge bleeped, you'd know the guy near you was someone you had something in common with.
		Whitfield Diffie -- co-inventor of public key encryption -- was at the conference and was so annoyed by the damned intrusive things that he hacked into his to put it into sleep mode.
		This item was tracked down by J.D. Abolins, who ain't so bad himself when it comes to electronic freedom.
	www.clairewolfe.com /wolfesblog/00000447.html (257 words)

	Whitfield Diffie, Jim Bidzos and Bruce Schneier - Computerworld
		Amid his poverty as a Stanford student in the '70s, Diffie was working on complex mathematical algorithms to help protect freedom of speech and privacy in the coming digital age.
		Things were a little better when Diffie discovered the solution to these problems in the form of public-key cryptography, which uses public and private digital keys to scramble and unscramble data.
		But as Diffie waited the 20 years it would take for the Diffie-Hellman algorithm to be needed, he also fought to lift export-control laws that would hamper people's ability to use encryption, particularly overseas.
	computerworld.com /securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,74540,00.html (1515 words)

	Luncheon speaker: Whitfield Diffie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		How this issues are resolved will have a tremendous impact on the future of civil liberties on the net.
		Whitfield Diffie, often referred to as the father of public key cryptography, has been a leading participant in the debate on national security and privacy protection.
		At Friday's lunchtime talk he will discuss the changing dynamics of cryptography and privacy debates around the world.
	www.cfp2000.org /news/student_reports/diffie-alvarez.html (339 words)

	Phil Windley's Technometria \| Whitfield Diffie on Security and Open Source
		Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer at Sun and co-inventor of the Diffie-Hellamn algorithm is speaking on the security aspects of open source software.
		Diffie is making an analogy between the standard crytographic practice of making the system public and the keys for transmitting individual messages private.
		This is not done for some altruistic reason, but because of a very real belief that the system is more more secure by being public.
	www.windley.com /archives/2003/03/whitfield_diffi.shtml (533 words)

	Weber: Interview with Whitfield Diffie on the Development of Public Key Cryptography - 2002
		Franco Furger explained the sociological research question on the socio-cultural determinants of the development of technologies and then asked Diffie how it happened that public key cryptography was developed (see Weber 1997).
		And Hoffman threw away the chance to have the well known names read Merkle and Hoffman rather than Diffie and Hellman.
		[1] Diffie apparently does not mean Merkle's early papers (see Weber 1997, p.
	www.itas.fzk.de /mahp/weber/diffie.htm (7755 words)

	EPIC Advisory Board
		Whitfield Diffie, Vice President and Fellow, Chief Security Officer, Sun Microsystems
		Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, is a Sun Distinguished Engineer and has been at Sun since 1991.
		As Chief Security Officer, Diffie is the chief exponent of Sun's security vision and responsible for developing Sun's strategyto achieve that vision.
	www.epic.org /epic/advisory_board.html (6824 words)

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