Eli Biham

Eli Biham

male
impossible differential cryptanalysis, Erdős number 3, Stream cipher, des, tiger, technion…Advanced Encryption Standard process, DataEncryptionStandard, Advanced Encryption Standard
Eli Biham is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology Computer Science...
Horst Feistel

Horst Feistel

male, deceased (1990)
modern cryptographer, German, naturalized citizen of the United States, scientist, IBM employee, DataEncryptionStandard…Lucifer and Data
Horst Feistel (30 January 1915<sup>(1)</sup>-14 November 1990) was a cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research...
Don Coppersmith

Don Coppersmith

male
Harvard University, Mars, Institute for Defense Analyses, Erdős number 2, Putnam Fellows, block cipher…DataEncryptionStandard
Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM,...
Lars Knudsen

Lars Knudsen

male, 47 years old
Erdős number 3, computer scientist, University of Bergen, Technical University of Denmark, block cipher, DataEncryptionStandard
Lars Ramkilde Knudsen (born February 21, 1962) is a Danish researcher in cryptography, particularly interested in the design and analysis of block...

John Gilmore

male
eff, des, Deep Crack, DataEncryptionStandard, EFF DES cracker, From San Francisco…opportunistic encryption
John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.*...
Paul Kocher

Paul Kocher

male, 36 years old
Stanford University alumni, From Oregon, Paul Carl Kocher, vegetarian, Erdős number 4, DSA…DataEncryptionStandard
Paul Carl Kocher (born June 11, 1973) is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president of Cryptography Research,...

Matt Curtin

male, 36 years old
Ohio State University, Developing Trust Online Privacy and Security, Brute Force Cracking the Data Encryption Standard, DataEncryptionStandard, U.S. Court of Appeals, Interhack Corporation
Matt Curtin (b. 1973) is a computer scientist and entrepreneur in Columbus, Ohio best known for his work in cryptography and firewall (networking)...

Walter Tuchman

male
modern cryptographer, IBM employee, IBM, Cryptographer, DataEncryptionStandard, Triple DES
Walter Tuchman, Ph.D led the Data Encryption Standard development team at IBM. He was also responsible for the development of Triple DES.

Bryant Tuckerman

male, deceased (2002)
Erdős number 2, Princeton University, titanic prime, Tuckerman traverse, DataEncryptionStandard, topology
Bryant Tuckerman (November 28, 1915 - May 19, 2002) was an American mathematician, born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a member of the team that...