Sun Creates New Security Posts
News Sun's new chief security officer is Whitfield "Whit" Diffie, a Sun employee since 1991 and co-inventor of the public-key cryptography technique used in Web browsers and numerous other software products.
[April 18, 2002, 12:45]
70's Technology Could Thwart RIP Bill
News The Diffie-Hellman key exchange, developed in 1976 by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, allows the exchange of encrypted messages without the need for a secret key. Allan points to two existing security techniques: Steganography and the Diffie...
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Sun Donates Cryptography Tech To OpenSSL Project
News Elliptic curve cryptography will enable secure communications with devices that 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-Hellman "public key...
[September 20, 2002, 14:32]
PKI Is Failing, Say Sun And Microsoft
News According to Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer of Sun Microsystems, the slow progress of PKI is due to the failure of big projects to promote it. PKI will take off, but it has slow growth," said Diffie.
[October 9, 2002, 9:42]
Encryption Device Offers Phone Privacy
News Starium has a distinguished board of directors, featuring Robert Kohn, former general council of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Whitfield Diffie, coinventor of public key cryptography. The device will encode voice communications with a 168-bit...
[September 20, 2000, 10:53]
Experts Divided Over Cyber-terrorist Threat
News 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 have had remarkable success in cryptography," said Diffie at a forum session at...
[April 9, 2008, 11:19]
Diffie Defends Open-source Security
News Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public key cryptography, and now chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, spoke out in defence of the security of open-source software at the RSA Conference in Paris on Tuesday.
[October 9, 2002, 9:02]
Thirty Years On, Cryptography Still Too Hard To Use?
News Over the years, public 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 in everyday transactions on the web.
[October 30, 2006, 16:10]
Zimmerman Joins UK Think Tank
News By creating PGP and distributing it on the Internet, 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 without having to first...
[September 16, 2002, 10:31]
Trusted Computing Raises Privacy Fears
News This key-based infrastructure leads to market dominance and lock-out and allows others to treat your computer as theirs," said Whitfield Diffie, a top encryption expert and chief security officer for Sun Microsystems.
[April 17, 2003, 10:18]
PGP Creator Zimmerman Joins Hush
News By creating PGP and distributing it on the Internet, 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 without having to first...
[February 20, 2001, 10:30]
Future Net: Six Technologies To Make A Bulletproof Web
News The basic method was laid down by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman at Stanford University in 1975-78 when they proposed matching a public key, assigned to an individual, with a private key held in strict confidence.
[September 7, 1999, 16:09]
The Human Factor Will Always Get You
Blog Comment It's not that I'm not security aware - quite the opposite; since my days as a teenage hacker, through the time I worked for a company making cryptographic thingies for people in funny hats, and into my journalistic career where I've taken coffee...
[September 12, 2008, 10:54]
Baltimore Packages Up PKI
News When only a few people have it, it is not worth adopting," said Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer of Sun Microsystems speaking at the recent RSA security conference in Paris. Troubled security software firm Baltimore is hoping to kick start...
[October 22, 2002, 15:27]
Privacy On The Line review
Reviews Whitfield Diffie is, of course, the Diffie in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, the research insight that established public key cryptography — you use the results of that research every time you connect securely to a Web site to commit an act of...
[July 12, 2007, 15:35]
Crypto Experts Hail Advanced Encryption Standard
News Whitfield Diffie, who many consider the father of cryptography and who has an algorithm named after him, said the last year was a turning point for encryption. The process of convincing people and the government has gone really slowly, but in the...
[April 11, 2001, 11:32]
US Report: Email Archives May Be Vulnerable
News Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public key cryptography and one of the most famous names in the encryption software industry, said the EFF's experiment exposes vulnerabilities in DES that might head off potentially disastrous network security...
[July 21, 1998, 6:04]
Surveillance: How Encryption Works
News The controversy surrounding access to encrypted data is rooted in the way in which two American academics, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, revolutionised encrypted communication in 1976 by inventing the concept of "public" and "private" keys...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
