Cryptographer
Whitfield Diffie
Co-invented public key cryptography, which made secure communication between strangers possible.
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. 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.
- Born
- 1944-06-05, New York City, USAA Monday
- At birth
- Sun in Gemini, Moon in Sagittarius
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1944-06-05, New York City, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 14°50′ | Direct |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 0°51′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Taurus | 21°33′ | Direct |
| Venus | Gemini | 8°57′ | Direct |
| Mars | Leo | 8°10′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Leo | 21°05′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Gemini | 28°06′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Gemini | 9°17′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 1°28′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 6°53′ | Direct |
Whitfield Diffie is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Whitfield Diffie was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.