In Memory of Stephen Pohlig

The foundation of our modern cyber security world was laid-down in the 1970s with the work of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamar, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman. One person who contributed greatly in the creation of the foundation was Stephen Pohlig. Unfortunately he died last year on 14 April 2017, but he left a great legacy.

In 1977, Stephen graduated with a PhD from Stanford University, and then became part of Martin Hellman’s amazing team at MIT. One of the labs core contributions was the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method. Stephen also contributed greatly to the foundation of…