David Wagner

David Wagner

male, 35 years old
cryptanalysis, AES competition, University of California, Berkeley, Twofish encryption algorithm, Wired Equivalent Privacy, SSL…Streamcipher, block cipher
David A. Wagner (1974) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in...
Eli Biham

Eli Biham

male
impossible differential cryptanalysis, Erdős number 3, Streamcipher, des, tiger, technion…block cipher
Eli Biham is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology Computer Science...
Joan Daemen

Joan Daemen

male, 44 years old
banksys, cryptographic hash function, Advanced Encryption Standard, square, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Rijndael…block cipher, Streamcipher, Block Cipher Design
Joan Daemen (born 1965, in Achel, Limburg, Belgium) is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the designers of Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption...

John Kelsey

male
modern cryptographer, Erdős number 3, side-channel attack, symmetric cryptography, cryptographic protocol, cryptographic random number generation…block cipher, Streamcipher
John Kelsey is a cryptographer currently working at NIST. His research interests include cryptanalysis and design of symmetric cryptography...
Bart Preneel

Bart Preneel

male
Erdős number 3, modern cryptographer, eSTREAM, International Association for Cryptologic Research, Hash functions based on block ciphers, Miyaguchi-Preneel…Streamcipher
Bart Preneel is a Belgian cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group, vice president...
Alex Biryukov

Alex Biryukov

male
Erdős number 3, impossible differential cryptanalysis, slide attack, University of Luxembourg, cryptographic primitive, Streamcipher
Alex Biryukov is a cryptographer, currently an assistant professor at the University of Luxembourg. His notable work includes the design of the...
Kaisa Nyberg

Kaisa Nyberg

female
S-boxes, substitution box, Helsinki University of Technology, cryptanalysis, Streamcipher, Computer security specialist…block cipher
Kaisa Nyberg is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently a professor at Helsinki University of Technology. Her notable work...

Gilbert Vernam

male, deceased (1960)
scientist at Bell Labs, one-time pad, Stream ciphers, Gilbert Sandford Vernam, PlainText, Streamcipher…cipher
Gilbert Sandford Vernam (1890 - 7 February 1960) was a AT&T Bell Labs engineer who, in 1917, invented the stream cipher and later co-invented the...

Howard Heys

male
modern cryptographer, cryptanalyses, Howard M. Heys, CAST-256, block cipher, Electrical and Computer Engineering…Streamcipher, stream
Howard M. Heys is a cryptographer, currently chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research...