[Cryptography] Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman win ACM Turing Award

[Perry E. Metzger]

   "Cryptography Pioneers Receive 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award

    Whitfield Diffie, former Chief Security Officer of Sun
    Microsystems and Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus of
    Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, are the recipients
    of the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award, for critical contributions to
    modern cryptography."

http://amturing.acm.org/

Full press release:
http://awards.acm.org/turing-award-2015.pdf

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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com