Background
Diffie, Whitfield Whit was born on June 5, 1944.
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Whitfield Whit Diffie
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Whitfield Whit Diffie, American computer and communications engineer. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (associate member, Information Theory Society Paper award 1979, Donald G. Fink award 1981, conference organizer 1983, Koji Kobayashi award, 1999, co-recipient Richard W. Hamming medal, 2010).
Education
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965. Postgraduate in electrical engineering, Stanford University, 1978. Doctor in Technology Sciences honoris causa, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1992.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Royal Holloway, University London, 2008.
Career
Research assistant The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, 1965-1969. Research programmer artificial intellingence laboratory Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1969-1973, research assistant, 1975-1978, research programmer, 1975. Self-supported researcher in cryptography, 1973-1974.
Manager secure system research Northern Telecom, Mountain View, California, 1978-1991. With Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, 1991—2009, distinguished engineer, advisory computer and communications security, 1991, vice president, Sun fellow and chief security officer. Vice president information security and cryptography Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), since 2010.
Chief cryptographer Revere Security, Dallas. Organizer conference Crypto '81, '83. Member program committee Crypto 89.
Member program committee Status and Prospects of Research in Cryptography '93, First Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Communications and Computer Security, 1993. Member advisory board Electronic Privacy Information Center. Visiting professor, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University London, since 2008.
Visiting scholar CISAC, Stanford University, 2009-2010. Advisory board member Electronic Privacy Information Center. Presenter in field.
Achievements
Membership
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (associate member, Information Theory Society Paper award 1979, Donald G. Fink award 1981, conference organizer 1983, Koji Kobayashi award, 1999, co-recipient Richard W. Hamming medal, 2010).
Connections
Married Mary L. Fischer.
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Nationality
American
Awards
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G.C. Steward fellow Gonville and Caius College, 1996. Recipient award for Distinguished Contribution to Consumer Protection California State Psychological Association, 1978, National Computer Systems Security award National Institute Standards and Technology and National Security Agency, 1996, Louis E. Levy medal Franklin Institute, 1997, First Paris Kanellakis award Association for Computing Machinery, 1997, Fellow Marconi Found, 2000, Chairman's award for Innovation and Fellow International Association for Cryptologic Research 2004.G.C. Steward fellow Gonville and Caius College, 1996. Recipient award for Distinguished Contribution to Consumer Protection California State Psychological Association, 1978, National Computer Systems Security award National Institute Standards and Technology and National Security Agency, 1996, Louis E. Levy medal Franklin Institute, 1997, First Paris Kanellakis award Association for Computing Machinery, 1997, Fellow Marconi Found, 2000, Chairman's award for Innovation and Fellow International Association for Cryptologic Research 2004.