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World Service,2 mins

Meet the man who changed encryption for ever.

The Inquiry

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In the 1970s Whitfield Diffie had an idea that would take encryption out of government hands. It was no longer just spies, diplomats and generals who could use encryption it was everyone. The genie was out of the bottle. (Photo: Whitfield Diffie, Credit: Stanford University)

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