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He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965.

Diffie and Martin Hellman's paper New Directions in Cryptography was published in 1976. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, which went far toward solving one of the fundamental problems of cryptography, key distribution. It has become known as Diffie-Hellman key exchange. The article also seems to have stimulated the almost immediate public development of a new class of encyphering algorithms, the asymmetric key algorithms.

He was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom, where he designed the key management architecture for the PDSO security system for X.2525 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for WAN networks using the phone or ISDN system as the networking hardware. It defines standard physical layer, data link layer and network layers (layers 1 through 3) of the OSI model. The packet switching network w networks.

In 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac he joined Sun MicrosystemsSun Microsystems is a Silicon Valley-based computer, semiconductor and software manufacturer. Sun's products include computer servers and workstations based on the SPARC processor, the SunOS and Solaris operating systems, the NFS network file system, the' SunLabs-West research facility (in Mountain View, CaliforniaFor the community near Martinez, California, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. Mountain View is a city located in Santa Clara County, in the U. state of California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 70,708.) as a Distinguished Engineer, working primarily on public policy aspects of cryptography. As of January 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co Diffie remains with Sun, serving as its Chief Security Officer, and as a Vice President and Sun Fellow.

In 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi he was awarded a DoctorateA doctorate is an academic degree of the highest level. Traditionally, the award of a doctorate implies recognition of the candidate as an equal by the university faculty under which he or she has studied. There are essentially three types of doctorates: in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He is also a fellow of the Marconi Foundation and has received various awards from other organisations.

Diffie and Susan Landau 's book Privacy on the Line was published in 1998 on the politics of wiretapping and encryption.