Cryptographe

Malcolm J. Williamson

British mathematician and cryptographer

Vie: 1950 – 2015
Né(e) le: 2 novembre 1950
Décédé(e) le: 15 septembre 2015
Nationalité: Royaume-Uni

Malcolm John Williamson was a British mathematician and cryptographer. In 1974 he developed what is now known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. He was then working at GCHQ and was therefore unable to publicise his research as his work was classified. Martin Hellman, who independently developed the key exchange at the same time, received credit for the discovery until Williamson's research was declassified by the British government in 1997.