The History of Public Key Cryptography with Whitfield Diffie

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On the 105th episode of the Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with the legendary Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer of public-key cryptography. Gary and Whitfield discuss the history of public key cryptography, Diffie’s work on the “proof of correctness of programs,” and if backdoors into crypto systems are a bad idea. They close out by discussing art.

• Whitfield Diffie
• Whitfield Diffie (Wikipedia)
• New Directions in Cryptography (1976) [PDF]

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