11/1/1976

🗝️ Diffie and Hellman Day

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On November 1, 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman published their proposal for a breakthrough in cryptographic communication: the first implementation of a public/private key pair for secure communication over open channels.

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