SAN FRANCISCO -(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rubicon Labs today announced the formation of a newly created Technical Advisory Board and that cybersecurity legend Whitfield Diffie joins as its first member.
Renowned as an advocate for privacy and security, Mr. Diffie co-wrote the 1976 seminal paper — “New Directions in Cryptography” — that virtually invented the field of Public Key Cryptography.
“All of us at Rubicon Labs are delighted to announce the addition of ‘Whit’ Diffie to our newly formed Technical Advisory Board,” said Dr. Wil Oxford, founder and Chief Scientist at Rubicon Labs. “Mr. Diffie is a true legend in the cybersecurity field, and his pioneering work has quite literally changed the way that the world communicates over the Internet.”
In commenting on his appointment to the advisory board, Mr. Diffie said, “As the Internet expands and bores deeper and deeper into the fabric of our technology and our everyday lives, providing the security required for servers and interconnected devices like smart thermostats and medical implants, will be a monumental task.” Mr. Diffie’s extraordinary impact on society has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Marconi Prize in 2000 and the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2010.
Mr. Diffie added, “Moore’s law may make it possible to develop ever-smaller devices, but the challenge now is to make them immune from attacks. This task will require the development of new primitives for secure computation, which is exactly what the researchers at Rubicon Labs are focused on bringing to market. That’s why I’m delighted to contribute to the next generation of cyber technology at Rubicon Labs.”
About Rubicon Labs
Rubicon Labs is a venture-backed, digital security startup in San Francisco, CA. with a development center in Austin, TX. Staffed by veterans of Apple, Cisco, Adobe, Broadcom, and successful startups, Rubicon Labs has developed a patented technology that ensures architectural invisibility of digital secret keys, ensuring that keys are never resident in memory, which renders a wide array of known attack vectors ineffective.
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Richard Egan
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