John Kelsey

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

Bart Preneel

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

Eli Biham

male
impossible differential cryptanalysis, Erdős number 3, Stream cipher, des, tiger, technion…Cryptographer, moderncryptographer
Eli Biham is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology Computer Science...
Niels Ferguson

Niels Ferguson

male
dutch, HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection, Macrovision…moderncryptographer
Niels Ferguson is a Dutch cryptographic engineer and consultant who currently works for Microsoft. He has worked with others, including Bruce...
Peter Gutmann

Peter Gutmann

male
Auckland power crisis of 1998, computer scientist, cryptosystem, Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, the longest suicide note in history, great blackout of 1998 in Auckland…moderncryptographer
Peter Gutmann is a computer scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; he also received...

Jacques Stern

male, 60 years old
Erdős number 2, CS-Cipher, Naccache-Stern cryptosystem, Naccache-Stern knapsack cryptosystem, Pointcheval-Stern signature algorithm, block cipher…moderncryptographer, 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...
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…moderncryptographer
Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann Jr. (born February 12, 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption...
Josef Pieprzyk

Josef Pieprzyk

male (Sydney, Australia)
Erdős number 3, Macquarie University, cryptography, moderncryptographer, polish, XSL attack
Josef Pieprzyk is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has worked on cryptography, in particular the XSL attack. He...

Sean Murphy

male
Erdős number 3, NESSIE, ECRYPT, Advanced Encryption Standard, Royal Holloway, University of London, moderncryptographer…Cryptographer
Sean Murphy is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He worked on the NESSIE and ECRYPT projects. His...