#AWARDS: "Turing Award Goes to MIT Cyptographers"

Moving cryptography into the modern age, MIT pioneers Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali were given the Turing Award today. Before Goldwasser and Micali, cryptography was based on secret code-books that held absolute keys to decoding encrypted data, but by introducing the concept of computational security depending on difficult calculations that provide various levels of security, Goldwasser and Micali modernized cryptography for the Internet age: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


Shafi Goldwasser (left) and Silvio Micali of MIT.Further Reading