Witfield Diffie & Martin Hellman are researchers who proposed asymmetric encryption in 1977. Asymmetric encryption, also called public-key cryptography, works on two keys. One key, termed public key, is used to encrypt the information, whereas another key named private key is used to decrypt the information.

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