Ralph Merkel, Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie just won IEEE’s Hamming Award for the creation of public key cryptography. I’m writing this blog post over a secure VPN connection and wonder if we ever stop to realize what a profound innovation this was/is. And how important this is to the Internet of Things.
“When a lock icon appears at the bottom of your browser, it’s using public key cryptography. Your computer and the merchant’s computer can talk back and forth across an insecure channel and exchange credit card information in a way that someone listening in cannot get it,” said Hellman, Stanford professor emeritus of electrical engineering.
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