On: New Directions in Cryptography by Diffie and Hellm...

[devindotcom]

Worth mentioning the two just won the 2015 Turing Award:

http://amturing.acm.org/

I actually just recently spoke with Hellman for an interview. He's focusing on educating people about the risk of maintaining nuclear deterrents. Also has a new book out that might not be what you expect:

https://anewmap.com/

[0xmohit → devindotcom]

Is a recording or transcript of the interview available?

> https://anewmap.com/

Yes, pretty hard to imagine. That said, it looks pretty interesting.

[devindotcom → 0xmohit]

Sorry for the late reply, I wrote it up here (didn't want to self-link in a top level reply):

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/27/cryptography-pioneer-marty...

[chrisweekly → devindotcom]

Thanks for sharing the Turing Award link; agreed it's noteworthy.

Random: I met Whit Diffie at my brother's wedding a couple years ago. He was charming.