Martin Hellman
Martin Hellman · Technology & Engineering
Co-invented public-key (Diffie-Hellman) cryptography.
1945, New York City, USA
United States (Bronx · Stanford University, California)
Martin Hellman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-invented public-key (Diffie-Hellman) cryptography.
Born to a Jewish family and raised in the Bronx, Hellman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and earned his doctorate at Stanford, where he became a professor of electrical engineering. With Whitfield Diffie (and building on Ralph Merkle's ideas) he published 'New Directions in Cryptography' in 1976, introducing public-key cryptography and the Diffie–Hellman key exchange. This solved the age-old problem of securely sharing secret keys over open channels and underpins virtually all secure internet communication today; he and Diffie received the 2015 Turing Award.
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Co-invented public-key (Diffie-Hellman) cryptography.
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