$1M Turing Award winners advocate for encryption
Whitfield Diffie, a former chief security officer of Sun Microsystems, and Martin Hellman, a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University, introduced the ideas of public-key cryptography and digital signatures back in 1976. The concepts now secure all kinds of data, from online communications and financial transactions to Internet-connected infrastructure like power plants. The honor was announced Tuesday, the same day that FBI Director James Comey and Apple's top lawyer... Читать дальше...