Turing Award Winner: The Invention of Public Key Cryptography | Martin Hellman

Martin Hellman is a Turing Award winner who helped to invent public-key cryptography against the NSA's wishes. I interviewed him all about his work and why it broke the law at the time. • My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned, you can follow along here: https://read.compose.llc/ • The Kickstarter page for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/... 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀: • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QNB... • Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... • Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/turing-a... 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at https://workos.com/ 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀: 00:00 Intro 00:34 Why his work broke the law 08:39 How people did encryption before 18:51 The crypto wars 26:22 The story behind Diffie Hellman key exchange 36:48 Signatures vs key exchange 43:05 RSA patent wars 48:08 Why inventions happen at similar times 50:29 What he worked on after cryptography 57:31 His thoughts on death 59:40 Advice for his younger self 01:00:45 Outro 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻: • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_... • Website: https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/ 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻: • Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman • LinkedIn:   / ryanlpeterman   • Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman • Instagram:   / ryanlpeterman   • TikTok:   / ryanlpeterman   𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲: • Martin Hellman's “The Evolution of Public Key Cryptography”:    • Stanford Seminar - The Evolution of Public...   • Keys Under Doormats: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/keys-und... • Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society (CRISIS report): https://nap.nationalacademies.org/cat... • Secure Communications Over Insecure Channels: https://doi.org/10.1145/359460.359473 • New Directions in Cryptography: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1976.1055638