David Chaum

David Chaum

male
E2E, end-to-end auditable, Erdős number 3, Digicash, University of California, Berkeley, International Association for Cryptologic Research…moderncryptographer
David Chaum is the inventor of many cryptographic protocols and has contributed to the advancement of electronic cash. Chaum founded DigiCash in...
Hideki Imai

Hideki Imai

male, 66 years old
moderncryptographer, electrical engineering, IEEE, Information theorist, Ph.D., International Association for Cryptologic Research
is an information theorist and cryptographer, currently a full professor in the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo. His...
Kaisa Nyberg

Kaisa Nyberg

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

Ståle Schumacher Ytteborg

male, 37 years old
norwegian, cryptography, moderncryptographer, software, scanner, OCR
Ståle Schumacher Ytteborg played a major role in making the program Pretty Good Privacy available outside of the United States. One of his c...

Ivan Damgård

male
Erdős number 2, University of Aarhus, scientist, Danish, Cryptomathic, moderncryptographer
Ivan Damgård is a professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He researches and teaches cryptography and is known among other things for the M...

Howard Heys

male
moderncryptographer, cryptanalyses, Howard M. Heys, CAST-256, block cipher, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Howard M. Heys is a cryptographer, currently chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research...
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto

Paulo S. L. M. Barreto

male, 44 years old
PhD, moderncryptographer, University of São Paulo, bahia, whirlpool, salvador…Cryptographer
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto (born 1965) is a Brazilian cryptographer and one of the designers of the Whirlpool hash function and the block ciphers...
Daniel J. Bernstein

Daniel J. Bernstein

male, 38 years old
Bellport, protected speech, computer software, Post Office Protocol, Daniel Julius Bernstein, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol…moderncryptographer
Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb; born October 29, 1971) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a...
Serge Vaudenay

Serge Vaudenay

male, 41 years old
Erdős number 3, Ecole Normale Superieure, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, French, Cryptographer, SSL…moderncryptographer
Serge Vaudenay is a well-known French cryptographer. Serge Vaudenay entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris as a "normalien" student in 19...
Alex Biryukov

Alex Biryukov

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