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Book review: Surveillance or Security?

...relatively easy thing to do, as Landau and public-key cryptography inventor Whitfield Diffie documented in their book Privacy on the Line: the History and... Read more

22 June, 2011

Diffie defends open-source security

Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public key cryptography, and now chief security officer... Read more

9 October, 2002 by Peter Judge

PKI is failing, say Sun and Microsoft

...to use or costs too much, users will reject it." According to Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer of Sun Microsystems, the slow progress of PKI... Read more

9 October, 2002 by Peter Judge

Risky business: Keeping security a secret

Whitfield Diffie: If you depend on a secret for your security, what do... Read more

20 January, 2003 by Whitfield Diffie

Cryptography experts debate cloud-computing risks

...is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome," said Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun. "I believe cloud computing will get... Read more

22 April, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Experts divided over cyber-terrorist threat

...However, at this week's RSA Conference, Sun's chief security officer Whitfield Diffie questioned that idea, arguing that cryptographic network defence was working. "We... Read more

9 April, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Thirty years on, cryptography still too hard to use?

...key cryptography has grown from an idea in a paper published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, both present at the event, to technology used... Read more

30 October, 2006 by Joris Evers

Under-skin ID tags generate concerns

...you can get enough power into those things" to encrypt data, said Whitfield Diffie, a fellow and security expert at Sun Microsystems. Some consumers have... Read more

23 August, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Laws and sausages

...or academic input to the TCG. And while eminent cryptographers such as Whitfield Diffie have said that the Microsoft approach "lends itself to market domination... Read more

16 April, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Your network is public - live with it!

...boundary cannot be kept rigid anymore. "The network boundary is fractal," said Whitfield Diffie, inventor of public-key cryptography, and now Sun Microsystems' security guru... Read more

27 February, 2003 by Peter Judge

Baltimore packages up PKI

In an attempt to widen the appeal of PKI - and make it easier for customers to understand - Baltimore is packaging its public key infrastructure technology into business suites Read more

22 October, 2002 by Matt Loney

Security vendors - it's payday!

...one thing. Interaction with other companies' IT systems will become the norm. Whitfield Diffie told the conference that the boundaries of companies are becoming fractal... Read more

10 October, 2002 by Peter Judge

Sun donates cryptography tech to OpenSSL project

...don't have as much calculating power as most desktop computers, said Whitfield Diffie, Sun's chief security officer and a pioneer of the Diffie... Read more

20 September, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Zimmerman joins UK think tank

...Zimmermann also helped widen the use of public key cryptography, developed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Helman, which allows computer users to communicate in privacy... Read more

16 September, 2002 by Matt Loney

Crypto experts hail Advanced Encryption Standard

...to give the NIST selection committee the annual RSA Public Policy award. Whitfield Diffie, who many consider the father of cryptography and who has an... Read more

11 April, 2001 by Robert Lemos

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