The Diffie-Hellman algorithm was a stunning breakthrough in cryptography that showed cryptographic keys could be securely exchanged in plain sight. Here’s how it works.

2015's 'Nobel Prize of computing' honors encryption pioneers The duo behind 1976's Diffie-Hellman Protocol are taking home $1 million for their work.

Programmers Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman, who developed the first form of cryptography for the internet era, have been awarded this year’s Turing Award. Named after famed British ...

Interviews with three cryptographers, Whitfield Diffie, Jim Bidzos and Bruce Schneier, whose influence on cryptography set in motion the security of electronic transactions today.

Asymmetric cryptography or public-key cryptography is cryptography in which a pair of keys is used to encrypt and decrypt a message so that it arrives ...

Martin Hellman achieved legendary status as co-inventor of the Diffie-Hellman public key exchange algorithm, a breakthrough in software and computer cryptography. That invention and his ongoing ...