PatentBrief

Inventor

Bailey W. Diffie

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1980

Associated with

Years active

1980

Total patents

1

Most recent

1980

Frequent collaborator

Martin E. Hellman

Domains

telecommunicationssoftwareconsumer_electronicssemiconductors

Activity by decade

1980s
1

Patents

1

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1980

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19801981

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US 4200770·1980·Leland Stanford Junior University

How to Create a Secret Code Key Without Meeting First

This 1980 patent describes a way for two people to create a secret code key over a public channel, like the internet, without ever meeting or sharing the key directly.

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