
Whitfield Diffie
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- award (2015): Turing Award
- award (2010): IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
- award (2000): Marconi Prize
- award (1996): Paris Kanellakis Award
- award (1994): EFF Pioneer Award
- award: National Inventors Hall of Fame
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2010 – 2019
- 2016
- [c10]Whitfield Diffie:
The Evolving Meaning of Information Security. KDD 2016: 5 - 2015
- [j22]Harold Abelson, Ross J. Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin, Josh Benaloh, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, John Gilmore, Matthew Green, Susan Landau, Peter G. Neumann, Ronald L. Rivest, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Bruce Schneier, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner:
Keys under doormats. Commun. ACM 58(10): 24-26 (2015) - [j21]Harold Abelson, Ross J. Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin, Josh Benaloh, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, John Gilmore, Matthew Green, Susan Landau, Peter G. Neumann, Ronald L. Rivest, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Bruce Schneier, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner:
Keys under doormats: mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications. J. Cybersecur. 1(1): 69-79 (2015) - 2011
- [j20]Steven M. Bellovin, Scott O. Bradner, Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau, Jennifer Rexford:
As simple as possible - but not more so. Commun. ACM 54(8): 30-33 (2011)
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [j19]Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau:
Communications surveillance: privacy and security at risk. Commun. ACM 52(11): 42-47 (2009) - [j18]Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau:
Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk. ACM Queue 7(8): 10 (2009) - 2008
- [j17]Whitfield Diffie:
Information security: 50 years behind, 50 years ahead. Commun. ACM 51(1): 55-57 (2008) - [j16]Whitfield Diffie:
What Did We Do Before Biometric Passports? A Review of Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Valentin Groebner. Cryptologia 32(4): 368-369 (2008) - [j15]Steven M. Bellovin, Terry V. Benzel, Bob Blakley, Dorothy E. Denning, Whitfield Diffie, Jeremy Epstein, Paulo Veríssimo
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Information Assurance Technology Forecast 2008. IEEE Secur. Priv. 6(1): 16-23 (2008) - [j14]Steven M. Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau, Peter G. Neumann, Jennifer Rexford:
Risking Communications Security: Potential Hazards of the Protect America Act. IEEE Secur. Priv. 6(1): 24-33 (2008) - [j13]Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau:
Privacy on the line: the politics of wiretapping and encryption. SIGACT News 39(4): 30-32 (2008) - [i1]Whitfield Diffie, George Ledin:
SMS4 Encryption Algorithm for Wireless Networks. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2008: 329 (2008) - 2007
- [b1]Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau:
Privacy on the line - the politics of wiretapping and encryption (updated expanded ed.). MIT Press 2007, ISBN 978-0-262-04240-6, pp. I-XVII, 1-472 - [j12]Steven M. Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau, Jennifer Rexford, Peter G. Neumann:
Internal surveillance, external risks. Commun. ACM 50(12): 128 (2007) - [c9]Whitfield Diffie:
Cryptography: Past, Present and Future. OTM Conferences (2) 2007: 1529-1530 - 2006
- [j11]Whitfield Diffie:
Chattering about SIGINT. IEEE Secur. Priv. 4(1): 9 (2006) - 2001
- [j10]Whitfield Diffie:
Ultimate cryptography. Commun. ACM 44(3): 84-86 (2001)
1990 – 1999
- 1998
- [j9]Whitfield Diffie:
E-commerce and security. ACM Stand. 6(3): 116-117 (1998) - 1997
- [j8]Hal Abelson, Ross J. Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin, Josh Benaloh, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, John Gilmore, Peter G. Neumann, Ronald L. Rivest, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Bruce Schneier:
The risks of key recovery, key escrow, and trusted third-party encryption. World Wide Web J. 2: 241-257 (1997) - 1996
- [j7]Thomas Beth, Whitfield Diffie:
Special Issue Dedicated to Gustavus J. Simmons - Foreword to this issue. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 7(1-2): 7-9 (1996) - [j6]Whitfield Diffie:
The National Security Establishment and the Development of Public-Key Cryptography. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 7(1-2): 9-12 (1996) - 1994
- [j5]Susan Landau, Stephen T. Kent, Clinton Brooks, Scott Charney, Dorothy E. Denning, Whitfield Diffie, Anthony Lauck, Douglas Miller, Peter G. Neumann, David Sobel:
Crypto Policy Perspectives. Commun. ACM 37(8): 115-121 (1994) - [j4]Ashar Aziz, Whitfield Diffie:
Privacy and authentication for wireless local area networks. IEEE Wirel. Commun. 1(1): 25-31 (1994) - 1992
- [j3]Whitfield Diffie, Paul C. van Oorschot
, Michael J. Wiener:
Authentication and Authenticated Key Exchanges. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 2(2): 107-125 (1992)
1980 – 1989
- 1989
- [c8]Whitfield Diffie:
The Adolescence of Public-Key Cryptography (Abstract). EUROCRYPT 1989: 2 - 1988
- [c7]David G. Steer, Leo Strawczynski, Whitfield Diffie, Michael J. Wiener:
A Secure Audio Teleconference System. CRYPTO 1988: 520-528 - 1985
- [c6]Whitfield Diffie:
Security for the DoD Transmission Control Protocol. CRYPTO 1985: 108-127 - [c5]Harriet J. Fell, Whitfield Diffie:
Analysis of a Public Key Approach Based on Polynomial Substitution. CRYPTO 1985: 340-349 - 1983
- [c4]Whitfield Diffie:
Securing Networks: End-to-End Encrpytion vs. Link Encryption and Trusted Systems. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 1983: 136-138 - 1981
- [c3]Whitfield Diffie:
Cryptography, the Next Two Decades. CRYPTO 1981: 84-108 - [c2]Whitfield Diffie, Melville Klein, Michael L. Dertouzos, Andrew Gleason, Dean Smith:
National Security and Commercial Security: Division of Responsibility. CRYPTO 1981: 154-156
1970 – 1979
- 1977
- [j2]Whitfield Diffie, Martin E. Hellman:
Special Feature Exhaustive Cryptanalysis of the NBS Data Encryption Standard. Computer 10(6): 74-84 (1977) - 1976
- [j1]Whitfield Diffie, Martin E. Hellman:
New directions in cryptography. IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 22(6): 644-654 (1976) - [c1]Whitfield Diffie, Martin E. Hellman:
Multiuser cryptographic techniques. AFIPS National Computer Conference 1976: 109-112
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