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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 530,174 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Whitfield Diffie is the 462nd most popular mathematician (up from 503rd in 2019), the 3,939th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,147th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.70

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  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Whitfield Diffie ranks 462 out of 823. Before him are Friedrich Hirzebruch, Thomas Bradwardine, Geminus, Pierre Fatou, Roger Cotes, and Maryam Mirzakhani. After him are Adam Ries, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Hypsicles, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Agner Krarup Erlang, and Anders Johan Lexell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Whitfield Diffie ranks 272. Before him are Peter Bieri, Elizabeth Loftus, Thom Mayne, Lars Norén, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Élisabeth Badinter. After him are Mitchell Feigenbaum, Raoul Lambert, Glen Cook, Jiří Holeček, Abdulah Sidran, and Kevin Ayers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Whitfield Diffie ranks 3,939 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert McKee (1941), Susan Kohner (1936), Jimmy Smits (1955), James Rosenquist (1933), Jim Croce (1943), and Richard Roundtree (1942). After him are Toby Keith (1961), Howard Pyle (1853), Armand Hammer (1898), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), James Rollins (1961), and Nancy Kelly (1921).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Whitfield Diffie ranks 26. Before him are John G. Thompson (1932), Jim Simons (1938), Raymond Smullyan (1919), Julia Robinson (1919), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), and Richard E. Bellman (1920). After him are Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), George David Birkhoff (1884), William Thurston (1946), Haskell Curry (1900), Isadore Singer (1924), and Robert Axelrod (1943).

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