Turing Award for 2015 given to duo who created modern day cryptography

Turing Award 2015 winners: Whitfield Diffie (left) and Martin E Hellman (right)
Whitfield Diffie and Martin E Hellman have been awarded the Turing Award for 2015, named after British mathematician Alan M Turing, who is regarded as the father of computer science.
Both Diffie and Hellman have been awarded for their contributions to modern cryptography, according to an official statement by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which gives out the annual $1 million prize.
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