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Whitfield Diffie

1944 - Today

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Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS (born June 5, 1944) is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution—a fundamental problem in cryptography. Their technique became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Whitfield Diffie has received more than 556,608 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Whitfield Diffie is the 445th most popular mathematician (up from 461st in 2019), the 3,637th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,928th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Whitfield Diffie ranks 445 out of 1,004. Before him are Paul Lévy, Goro Shimura, Pierre Wantzel, Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, Jacques Ozanam, and Christian Kramp. After him are Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Oscar Zariski, Yves Meyer, and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Whitfield Diffie ranks 280. Before him are Carl Bernstein, Joseph Boakai, Rick Davies, Rick Barry, Andrew G. Vajna, and Jan-Carl Raspe. After him are Elmar Wepper, David Rasche, Oleksandr Moroz, Glen Cook, Aleksandr Serebrov, and Sandra Faber.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Whitfield Diffie ranks 3,637 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Penn Warren (1905), Kenny Clarke (1914), Christina Grimmie (1994), Jane Lynch (1960), Lucia Berlin (1936), and Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850). After him are Lawrence Block (1938), Robert Indiana (1928), David Arquette (1971), Maureen Connolly (1934), Donald Davidson (1917), and Ethel Kennedy (1928).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Whitfield Diffie ranks 24. Before him are Sam Loyd (1841), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Raymond Smullyan (1919), Richard Hamming (1915), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), and Jim Simons (1938). After him are William Thurston (1946), Richard E. Bellman (1920), Isadore Singer (1924), Dennis Sullivan (1941), George David Birkhoff (1884), and Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944).

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