- Ron Rivest
Professor Ronald Lorin Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (CSAIL). He is most celebrated for his work on public-key encryption with Len Adleman and Adi Shamir, specifically the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award.
- Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is president of Counterpane Systems, the author of Applied Cryptography, and the inventor the Blowfish algorithm. He serves on the board of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal, and a frequent writer and lecturer on cryptography.
- Subhash Kak
Subhash Kak (born March 26, 1947 in Srinagar, Kashmir) is an Indian American computer scientist. He has published material related to cryptography and quantum information. He is notable for publications outside of his field, from an India-centric "Indigenous Aryans" ideology, including history and philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and history of mathematics.
- Leonard Adleman
Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing. RSA is in widespread use in security applications, including digital signatures. Born in California, Adleman grew up in San Francisco, and attended the University of California, …
- Burt Kaliski
Burton S. "Burt" Kaliski, Jr. is a cryptographer, currently chair of the office of the CTO and vice president of research at RSA Security, and chief scientist of its research center, RSA Laboratories. His notable work includes the development of such public key cryptography standards as PKCS and IEEE P1363, the extension of linear cryptanalysis to use multiple approximations, and the design of the block cipher Crab.
- Arjen Lenstra
Arjen K. Lenstra is a Dutch mathematician. He studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently a professor at the EPFL (Lausanne), in the Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms, and previously worked for Citibank and Bell Labs. Lenstra is active in cryptography, especially in areas such as integer factorization and the XTR cryptosystem. He has been involved in the successful factoring of several RSA numbers.
- Adi Shamir
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 of the inventors of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.
- David Wagner
David A. Wagner (1974) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in cryptography and computer security. He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee, tasked with assisting the EAC in drafting the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. Wagner received an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1995, …
- Alfred Menezes
Alfred Menezes is co-author of several books on cryptography, most notably the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography". Menezes is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Managing Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research.
- Victor Shoup
Victor Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, and is currently a Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He has previously held positions at AT&T Bell Labs, the University of Toronto, Saarland University, and the IBM Zurich Research Lab. Shoup's main research interests are computer algorithms relating to number theory, algebra, …
- John Kelsey
John Kelsey is a cryptographer currently working at NIST. His research interests include cryptanalysis and design of symmetric cryptography primitives (block ciphers, stream ciphers, cryptographic hash functions, MACs), analysis and design of cryptographic protocols, cryptographic random number generation, electronic voting, side-channel attacks on cryptography implementations, and anonymizing communications systems.
- Whitfield Diffie
Whitfield Diffie is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. He is Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, Vice-President and Sun Fellow. Andrew Sentence is an external member of the Monetary Policy of the Bank of England, the body responsible for setting interest rates in the UK to meet the Government's inflation target.
- Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel is a Belgian cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group, vice president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and project manager of ECRYPT. Simultaneously with Shoji Miyaguchi, he invented the Miyaguchi-Preneel scheme, a robust structure used in hash functions such as Whirlpool. He is one of the authors of the RIPEMD-160 hash function.
- Eli Biham
Eli Biham is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology Computer Science department. Biham received his Ph.D. for inventing (publicly) differential cryptanalysis, while working under Adi Shamir. It had, it turned out, been invented at least twice before. A team at IBM discovered it during their work on DES, and was requested/required to keep their discovery secret by the NSA, …
- Niels Ferguson
Niels Ferguson is a Dutch cryptographic engineer and consultant who currently works for Microsoft. He has worked with others, including Bruce Schneier, designing cryptographic algorithms, testing algorithms and protocols, and writing papers and books. In 2001, he claimed to have broken the HDCP system that is incorporated into HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs players, similar to the DVDs Macrovision, but has not published his research, …
- Peter Gutmann
Peter Gutmann is a computer scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; he also received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Auckland. Interested in computer security issues, including security architecture, security usability (or more precisely the lack thereof), and hardware security, he has discovered assorted flaws in publicly released cryptosystems and protocols.
- Jacques Stern
Jacques Stern is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory. He received the 2006 CNRS Gold Medal. His notable work includes the cryptanalysis of numerous encryption and signature schemes, the design of the Pointcheval-Stern signature algorithm, the Naccache-Stern cryptosystem and Naccache-Stern knapsack cryptosystem, and the block ciphers CS-Cipher, DFC, and xmx.
- Phil Zimmermann
Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann Jr. (born February 12, 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols, notably ZRTP and Zfone. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. His father was a concrete mixer truck driver. He received a B.S. degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton in 1978. He was one of the first to make asymmetric, …
- Josef Pieprzyk
Josef Pieprzyk is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has worked on cryptography, in particular the XSL attack. He collaborated in the invention of the LOKI and LOKI97 block ciphers and the HAVAL cryptographic hash function.
- Sean Murphy
Sean Murphy is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He worked on the NESSIE and ECRYPT projects. His notable research includes the cryptanalysis of FEAL and the Advanced Encryption Standard, and the use of stochastic and statistical techniques in cryptology.
- Joan Daemen
Joan Daemen (born 1965, in Achel, Limburg, Belgium) is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the designers of Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), together with Vincent Rijmen. He has also designed or co-designed the MMB, Square, SHARK, NOEKEON, 3-Way, and BaseKing block ciphers. In 1988, Daemen graduated in electro-mechanical civil engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
- Yuliang Zheng
Yuliang Zheng is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is best known for inventing the Signcryption cryptographic primitive that combines the digital signature and encryption operations into one single step. He also invented the HAVAL hash function, SPEED cipher, and STRANDOM pseudo-random number generator. Zheng serves as Chief Technology Officer of Calyptix Security Corporation, a company he co-founded in 2002.
- Vincent Rijmen
Vincent Rijmen (born 16 October 1970, in Leuven, near Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the designers of the Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijmen is also the co-designer of the WHIRLPOOL cryptographic hash function, and the block ciphers Anubis, KHAZAD, Square, NOEKEON and SHARK. In 1993, Rijmen obtained a degree in electronics engineering at the "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven" (K.U.Leuven).
- Martin Hellman
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He went on to earn his Bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966, and at Stanford University he earned a Master's degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1969, all in electrical engineering.
- Ross Anderson
Ross J. Anderson is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is a professor in security engineering at Cambridge University where he leads the computer security group. In cryptography, he, together with Eli Biham, designed the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives, the block cipher Serpent (with Biham and Lars Knudsen), and the stream cipher Pike. He has also discovered weaknesses in many algorithms (FISH) and security systems.
- Oded Goldreich
Oded Goldreich is a professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computing. Specifically, the interplay of randomness and computation, the foundations of cryptography and complexity theory at large. Goldreich made notable contributions to the development of zero knowledge proofs and in secure function evaluation.
- Lars Knudsen
Lars Ramkilde Knudsen (born February 21, 1962) is a Danish researcher in cryptography, particularly interested in the design and analysis of block ciphers, hash functions and message authentication codes (MACs). After some early work in banking, Knudsen enrolled at Aarhus University in 1984 studying mathematics and computer science, gaining a MSc in 1992 and a PhD in 1994. From 1997-2001, he worked at the University of Bergen, Norway.
- Paul Kocher
Paul Carl Kocher (born June 11, 1973) is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president of Cryptography Research, Inc. Among his most significant achievements are the development of timing attacks that can break online implementations of RSA, DSA and fixed-exponent Diffie-Hellman under certain circumstances, as well as the co-development of power analysis and differential power analysis. He also contributed to the design of Deep Crack, …
- Taher Elgamal
Dr. Taher Elgamal (born 18 August 1955) is an Egyptian American cryptographer. Elgamal is sometimes written as El Gamal or ElGamal, but Elgamal is now preferred. In 1985, Elgamal published a paper titled "A Public key Cryptosystem and A Signature Scheme based on discrete Logarithms" in which he proposed the design of the ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem and of the ElGamal signature scheme.
- Don Coppersmith
Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM, particularly the design of the S-boxes, strengthening them against differential cryptanalysis. He has also worked on algorithms for computing discrete logarithms, the cryptanalysis of RSA, methods for rapid matrix multiplication (see Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm) and IBM's MARS cipher.
- Len Sassaman
Len Sassaman (born 1980) is the current maintainer of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer code and remop of the "randseed" remailer. He was employed as the security architect and senior systems engineer for Anonymizer. Currently he is a graduate student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, as part of the COSIC research group, led by Bart Preneel. Len has written several papers on privacy and anonymity.
- Robert Jueneman
Robert Jueneman is a significant figure in American cryptography. He served as Security Architect for Novell, Inc., and currently serves as Chief Scientist of Spyrus, Inc.
- Ralph Merkle
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 pursued research in security and computational nanotechnology until 1999. He was a Nanotechnology Theorist at Zyvex until 2003, when he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Professor of Computing until 2006.
- Jennifer Seberry
Jennifer Roma Seberry is a cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, currently a professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She was formerly the head of the Department of Computer Science and director of the Centre for Computer Security Research at the university. Professor Seberry was one of the founders of the Asiacrypt international conference in 1990 (then called Auscrypt).
- Walter Tuchman
Walter Tuchman, Ph.D led the Data Encryption Standard development team at IBM. He was also responsible for the development of Triple DES.
- Scott Vanstone
Dr. Scott A. Vanstone Founder & Executive Vice-President Strategic Technology One of the founders of Certicom, Dr. Vanstone is also a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Vanstone devotes much of his research to the efficient implementation of the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for the provision of information security services in handheld computers, smart cards, wireless devices and integrated circuits.
- Shafi Goldwasser
Shafrira Goldwasser (born 1958) is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Born in New York City, she obtained her B.S. (1979) in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.S. (1981) and Ph.D (1983) in computer science from UC Berkeley. She joined MIT in 1983, and in 1997 became the first holder of the RSA Professorship.
- Shimon Even
Shimon Even (June 15, 1935 - May 1, 2004) was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. He had been a member of the Computer Science Department of the Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptographer.
- Horst Feistel
Horst Feistel (30 January 1915<sup>(1)</sup>-14 November 1990) was a cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research that would culminate in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s.
- Dmitry Sklyarov
Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian computer programmer known for his 2001 arrest by American law enforcement over software copyright restrictions. He was later released and the charges were dropped.