휫필드 디피

소개

베일리 휫필드 ‘휘트’ 디피(Bailey Whitfield “Whit” Diffie, 1944년 6월 5일 ~)는 미국의 암호학자이다. 공개열쇠암호분야의 개척자중 한 명이다. 1965년 MIT에서 수학 석사 학위를 받았다.

Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution—a fundamental problem in cryptography. Their technique became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The article stimulated the almost immediate public development of a new class of encryption algorithms, the asymmetric key algorithms.