WHITFIELD DIFFIE CRYPTOLOGIC ICONOCLAST

Non-Secret Encryption - a “SECRET” no longer.By Patrick Bomgardner, Standby Active Reserve, Center for Cryptologic History.Self-identified iconoclast Whitfield Diffie who said, “I was always concerned about individuals,an individual's privacy as opposed to government secrecy,” and who in 2015 along with MartinHellman won the Turing Award – the “Nobel Prize for Computing” – for fundamentalcontributions to modern cryptography, can now add 2020 Cryptologic Hall of Honor (HoH)Inductee to his long li...