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Re:Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award by 64bitbrain on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @03:13PM (#11205696)
yayy!! This is just great! Congrats to Martin and Hellman.

Why it takes such long time for Computer Scientist to achieve such Award. DH Algo has been well known for long time. On the other hand Physicists(Theoretical, Astro, ...) dont have to wait too long to gain such recognition.

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Re:Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award by Godel_unicode on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @01:51AM (#11208464)
Martin (sic) Hellman is one person. His co-awardee is Whitfield Diffie.
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Re:Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award by thieving_magpie on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @03:16PM (#11205712)
>Congrats to Martin and Hellman.

:)

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