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Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman were outsiders in the field of cryptography when they devised a scheme hitherto unknown: The ability to establish secure communications over public channels between two parties that don’t know each other. The algorithm they presented in 1976, known as Diffie-Hellman, introduced the general notion of what is now called asymmetric […]