Phil Zimmermann

Phil Zimmermann

male, 55 years old
RSA Data Security, Inc., Public-key cryptographer, export of cryptography, Pretty Good Privacy, arms trafficking export controls, Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann Jr…public key, modern cryptographer
Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann Jr. (born February 12, 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption...
Martin Hellman

Martin Hellman

male, 64 years old
Erdős number 3, Stanford University, Bronx High School of Science, Master's Degree, Stanford University alumni, Ph.D.…public key cryptography, Cryptographer, Public-key cryptographer, modern cryptographer
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle....
Ralph Merkle

Ralph Merkle

male, 57 years old
Georgia Institute of Technology faculty, The Diamond Age, science fiction, Ralph C. Merkle, public key cryptography, molecular nanotechnology…Cryptographer, Public-key cryptographer, modern cryptographer
Dr. Merkle received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1979 where he co-invented public key cryptography.He joined Xerox PARC in 1988, where he...
Whitfield Diffie

Whitfield Diffie

male
Sun Microsystems, New Directions in Cryptography, public-key cryptography, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Susan Landau, Diffie-Hellman key exchange…asymmetric key algorithm, modern cryptographer, Public-key cryptographer, Cryptographer
Whitfield Diffie is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. He is Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems,...

Jacques Stern

male, 60 years old
Erdős number 2, CS-Cipher, Naccache-Stern cryptosystem, Naccache-Stern knapsack cryptosystem, Pointcheval-Stern signature algorithm, block cipher…modern cryptographer, Cryptographer, Public-key cryptographer
Jacques Stern is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory. He...
Ron Rivest

Ron Rivest

male, 62 years old
RSA, public-key, computer scientist, modern cryptographer, Turing Award laureate, From Schenectady…symmetric key, Public-key cryptographer, Cryptographer
Professor Ronald Lorin Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer...
Neal Koblitz

Neal Koblitz

male
Harvard University, Public-key cryptographer, Putnam Fellows, University of Washington faculty, developing countries, Elliptic Curve Cryptography…modern cryptographer
Neal Koblitz is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington in the Department of Mathematics. He is also an adjunct professor with...
Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir

male, 57 years old
RSA, cryptography, Cryptographer, ron rivest, Jewish person, computer scientist…Public-key cryptographer, modern cryptographer
Adi Shamir (born 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He was one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), one...
Taher Elgamal

Taher Elgamal

male, 54 years old
Stanford University, RSA Security, Phoenix Technologies, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Securify, Secure Sockets Layer…modern cryptographer, Public-key cryptographer, Cryptographer
Dr. Taher Elgamal (born 18 August 1955) is an Egyptian American cryptographer. Elgamal is sometimes written as El Gamal or ElGamal, but Elgamal is...
Leonard Adleman

Leonard Adleman

male, 63 years old (Northridge, California, United States)
dna, NP-complete, boolean satisfiability problem, 3-SAT, modern cryptographer, RSA…Public-key cryptographer
Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the...