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Whit Diffie on Encryption and PKI

In the 1970s, Whitfield Diffie co-wrote the recipe for one of today's most widely used security algorithms in a paper called "New Directions in Cryptography." The paper was a blueprint of what came to be known the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, a seismic advancement in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology that makes secure online transactions possible. It's part of such popular protocols as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell (SSH).

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