Whitfield Diffie: advisors and students

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Whitfield Diffie

American cryptographer (born 1944)born 1944

Wikidata names James Massey and Martin Edward Hellman as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Teachers and mentors2

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
James Massey
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Martin Edward Hellman

Education and career4

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until 1965
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
studied
undated
Stanford University
studied
undated
Jamaica High School
studied
undated
University of London
worked

At a glance

known as: cryptographer, mathematician, computer scientist, cryptologist
fields: cryptography
awards: honorary doctor of ETH Zürich, 1992, Paris Kanellakis Award, 1996, Marconi Prize, 2000, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, 2010, Turing Award, 2015, National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2011, Computer History Museum Fellow, 2011, National Cyber Security Hall of Fame, 2012, IACR Fellow, 2004, IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, 1999, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 2017, Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute, 1997, ACM Fellow, 2020, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class
member of: Royal Society of London, from 2017, Association for Computing Machinery, from 2021
notable works: Diffie–Hellman key exchange
Wikipedia: in 35 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaWhitfield Diffie
stated by WikidataWikidataQ462089
stated by WikidataVIAF74088727
stated by WikidataGND108912063X
stated by WikidataIdRef18517289X
stated by WikidataISNI0000000116726525

papers

stated by WikidataDBLP93/2898
stated by WikidataScopus6603621741

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project226956

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@misc{academicancestry_Q462089,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Whitfield Diffie: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q462089},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Whitfield Diffie: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q462089