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Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman

2026-07-06 · 62 min · 24 entities

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    Link in episode "Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman": https://developing.dev/p/turing-award-winner-nsa-public-key
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    Link in episode "Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman": https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/keys-under-doormats

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    Link in episode "Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman": https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/keys-under-doormats

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Episode description as stored
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/ryanlpeterman/compose-simple-ergonomics-beautifully-done Podcast links: • YouTube: https://youtu.be/AZLOETBCQM4 • Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835 • Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/turing-award-winner-nsa-public-key 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_Hellman • Website: https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/ Where to find Ryan: • Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/ • Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman Referenced in this episode: • Martin Hellman's “The Evolution of Public Key Cryptography”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tev3tVzH91s • Keys Under Doormats: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/keys-under-doormats/ • Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society (CRISIS report): https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5131/cryptographys-role-in-securing-the-information-society • Secure Communications Over Insecure Channels: https://doi.org/10.1145/359460.359473 • New Directions in Cryptography: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1976.1055638