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Martin E. Hellman

Martin E. Hellman

About Martin E. Hellman

Stanford professor Martin Hellman is best known for his invention (joint with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle) of public key cryptography, the technology that protects trillions of dollars every day. This work won him the ACM Turing Award, sometimes thought of as “the Nobel Prize in Computer Science.”

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