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Whitfield Diffie, an Uncommon card
Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Whitfield Diffie quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Whitfield Diffie card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Their ______ became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange.
Answer
technique. Their technique became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. From the Whitfield Diffie article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Diffie and Hellman's ____ paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution, a fundamental problem in cryptography.
Answer
1970s. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution, a fundamental problem in cryptography. From the Whitfield Diffie article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution, a fundamental problem in cryptography.
- Their technique became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange.
- The article stimulated the almost immediate public development of a new class of encryption algorithms, the asymmetric key algorithms.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Whitfield Diffie article was read about 29,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Whitfield Diffie (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Duncan.Hull, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
