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New Directions in Cryptography by Diffie and Hellman (1976) [pdf]

devindotcom 10y ago
Worth mentioning the two just won the 2015 Turing Award: http://amturing.acm.org/ http://amturing.acm.org/ I actually just recently spoke with Hellman for an interview. He's focusing on educating people about the risk of maintaining nuclear deterrents. Also has a new book out that might not be what you expect: https://anewmap.com/ https://anewmap.com/
- 0xmohit 10y ago
  Is a recording or transcript of the interview available? > https://anewmap.com/ https://anewmap.com/ Yes, pretty hard to imagine. That said, it looks pretty interesting.
  - devindotcom 10y ago
    Sorry for the late reply, I wrote it up here (didn't want to self-link in a top level reply): https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/27/cryptography-pioneer-marty-hellman-on-using-compassion-in-personal-cyber-and-international-threats/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/27/cryptography-pioneer-marty...
- deleted 10y ago
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- chrisweekly 10y ago
  Thanks for sharing the Turing Award link; agreed it's noteworthy. Random: I met Whit Diffie at my brother's wedding a couple years ago. He was charming.
jumelles 10y ago
(1976)
excitom 10y ago
> We stand today on the brink of a revolution in cryptography. Wow, to be able to make that the lead sentence and it turns out not to be hyperbole!
- wyldfire 10y ago
  In some ways, it's an understatement. It's revolutionary, period -- not just for cryptography.
- ddebernardy 10y ago
  Until then you had to exchange keys ahead of time with known parties. With public/private keys, you became able to do so in real time with arbitrary third parties. I'd gather they knew full well it wouldn't hyperbole.
britcruise 10y ago
made a video inspired by this work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do
- baby 10y ago
  Ah that was a cool video! I was showing that to my girlfriend the other day to explain DH to her :)
cromulent 10y ago
Also developed in parallel by GCHQ, but they didn't realize the potential and it was classified for 27 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classified_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classi...
- dtemp 10y ago
  Or they knew exactly the potential but wanted to keep it to themselves.
mhellman 10y ago
Thank you all for your kind words. Martin Hellman

Worth mentioning the two just won the 2015 Turing Award: http://amturing.acm.org/ http://amturing.acm.org/ I actually just recently spoke with Hellman for an interview. He's focusing on educating people about the risk of maintaining nuclear deterrents. Also has a new book out that might not be what you expect: https://anewmap.com/ https://anewmap.com/

0xmohit 10y ago
Is a recording or transcript of the interview available? > https://anewmap.com/ https://anewmap.com/ Yes, pretty hard to imagine. That said, it looks pretty interesting.
- devindotcom 10y ago
  Sorry for the late reply, I wrote it up here (didn't want to self-link in a top level reply): https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/27/cryptography-pioneer-marty-hellman-on-using-compassion-in-personal-cyber-and-international-threats/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/27/cryptography-pioneer-marty...
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chrisweekly 10y ago
Thanks for sharing the Turing Award link; agreed it's noteworthy. Random: I met Whit Diffie at my brother's wedding a couple years ago. He was charming.

jumelles 10y ago

(1976)

excitom 10y ago

> We stand today on the brink of a revolution in cryptography. Wow, to be able to make that the lead sentence and it turns out not to be hyperbole!

wyldfire 10y ago
In some ways, it's an understatement. It's revolutionary, period -- not just for cryptography.
ddebernardy 10y ago
Until then you had to exchange keys ahead of time with known parties. With public/private keys, you became able to do so in real time with arbitrary third parties. I'd gather they knew full well it wouldn't hyperbole.

britcruise 10y ago

made a video inspired by this work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do

baby 10y ago
Ah that was a cool video! I was showing that to my girlfriend the other day to explain DH to her :)

cromulent 10y ago

Also developed in parallel by GCHQ, but they didn't realize the potential and it was classified for 27 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classified_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classi...

dtemp 10y ago
Or they knew exactly the potential but wanted to keep it to themselves.

mhellman 10y ago

Thank you all for your kind words. Martin Hellman