Jon Lech Johansen

Jon Lech Johansen

male, 26 years old
DVD Jon, DVD-Jon, info wars, content-scrambling system, reverse engineering, EFF Pioneer Award recipient…moderncryptographer
Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983 in Harstad, Norway), also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian (his father is Norwegian and mother is Polish)...
Matt Blaze

Matt Blaze

male
University of Pennsylvania, Clipper chip, trust management, word coinage, coined, Ipsec…moderncryptographer
Matt Blaze is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer...
Neal Koblitz

Neal Koblitz

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

David Wheeler

male, deceased (2004)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Computing Machinery, FRS, From Birmingham, England, cryptography, moderncryptographer
David John Wheeler FRS (9 February 1927 - 13 December 2004) was a computer scientist. He was born in Birmingham and gained a scholarship at Trinity...
Paul van Oorschot

Paul van Oorschot

male
computer scientist, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Erdős number 2, Ph.D., Carleton University faculty, Public-key cryptographer…moderncryptographer
Paul C. van Oorschot is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently a professor of computer science at Carleton University. He is...
Souradyuti Paul

Souradyuti Paul

male
Indian, computer scientist, moderncryptographer, rc4, Cryptographer, helix
Souradyuti Paul in an Indian cryptologist (PhD, 2006, Catholic University of Leuven). He took part in cryptanalysis of * RC4 * Helix * Py * Py6 *...
Georg Hamel

Georg Hamel

deceased (1954)
mathematician, moderncryptographer, German, encryption, foundations of mathematics, function theory
Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (12 September 1877-4 October 1954) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics...
Phillip Rogaway

Phillip Rogaway

male
Erdős number 3, UMAC, moderncryptographer, des, UC Berkeley, seal…Cryptographer
Phillip Rogaway is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated with an AB in computer science from UC...
James H. Ellis

James H. Ellis

male, deceased (1997)
engineer, mathematician, moderncryptographer, Alumni of Imperial College London, Public-key cryptographer, Gchq…GCHQ cryptographer
James H. Ellis (1924-November 1997) was an engineer and mathematician. In 1970, while working at GCHQ he conceived of the possibility of...

James Massey

male, 75 years old
University of Notre Dame, Member of the ETH Zurich, idea, Ph.D., Erdős number 2, Berlekamp-Massey algorithm…moderncryptographer, Cryptographer
James Lee Massey (born in 1934 in Wauseon, Ohio) is an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH...