Cryptographer Whitfield "Whit" Diffie has been hired as vice president for information security and cryptography at ICANN.

"Diffie is one of the inventors of the Diffie--Hellman key exchange, a cryptographic protocol that enabled public key cryptography and helped make strong cryptography mainstream," writes Computerworld's Robert McMillan.

"As scammers find new ways to abuse the Internet, ICANN has come under fire for not moving decisively to deal with bad actors, so Diffie will inherit some thorny security problems at his new job," McMillan writes.

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