. "Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5, 1944) is an American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography.Diffie and Martin Hellman's paper New Directions in Cryptography was published in 1976. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that went far toward solving one of the fundamental problems of cryptography, key distribution. It has become known as Diffie\u2013Hellman key exchange."@en . "Whitfield Diffie"@en . . . "1944-06-05Z"^^ . . . . "American cryptographer" . "1944Z"^^ . . . "Diffie, Whitfield"@en . . . .