Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie is an American cryptologist. It is among the leaders of asymmetric cryptography (using a pair of public and exclusive secret) in collaboration with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle.
In 1965, he received a BS in maths at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1976 with the assistance of Martin Hellman, he published New Directions in Cryptography. The innovative method defined in this paper resolves a basic problem in cryptography: key distribution. This technique will certainly then be renamed technique of Diffie-Hellman. This concept is likewise the origin of crooked key methods to more advanced such as RSA or ElGamal.
Diffie continued his study at Northern Telecom (Nortel) where he worked on the style of PDSO safety system for X. 25 networks.
In 1991 he joined Sun Microsystems in California where he continues to attend to concerns of security and also cryptography.
In 1992 he was granted an honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich. He belongs to the Marconi Foundation. In 1998 he created a book with Susan Landau Privacy on the Line on wiretapping as well as political issues related to cryptography.
Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Whitfield, under the main topic Technology.
"We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age"
"We take our cultural machinery and are moving that into the Internet"
"People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work"
"I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files"
"One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance"
"I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology"
"Two people can work on a problem better than one"
"Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about"
"Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much"
"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions"
"If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything"
"I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York"
