Turing Award Winner Dr. Whitfield Diffie, Founder of Asymmetric Encryption, Joins FindoraRecently, Findora Advanced Research Center welcomed Dr. Whitfield Diffie, one of the best-known modern cryptography gurus in the world, to be its senior advisor. Whitfield is an expert in the field of cryptography and security technology and the winner of the 2015 Turing Award in computer science --- the “Nerd Nobel” --- for his revolutionary contributions to cryptography research. Dr. Diffie will advise the Findora team on financial privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure and actively support the Findora Foundation's cryptography-related research initiatives. He will also assist in the development and commercial adoption of the Findora ecosystem projects. The Findora Advanced Research Center is a special research institute established by the Findora Foundation. It provides professional know-how, tier 1 venture co-investments and frontier expertise from senior cryptography scholars. It supports research in cryptographic technology and promotes its technology in the field of decentralized financial applications.
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About Findora
Founded in 2017 in Menlo Park, Findora is a Silicon Valley-based advanced ledger technology company founded by seasoned financiers, scientists and the former CEO of Stanford University’s $25b endowment fund. Findora’s core mission is to enable confidential and auditable applications with breakthroughs in cryptography, blockchain, and efficient authenticated data structures. Backed by the research of the renowned institutions, Findora is a market leader in zero-knowledge proof and multi-party computation technologies with strong distributed system engineering capability.
