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…asymmetric key algorithm, cryptography, Public-key cryptographer
Whitfield Diffie is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. He is Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems,...
David Naccache

David Naccache

male
white house, Erdős number 2, block cipher, digital signature, Naccache-Stern knapsack cryptosystem, Naccache-Stern cryptosystem…public-key cryptography, Public-key cryptographer
David Naccache is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the University of Paris II and member of the École Normale Supérieure's Computer Lab. He...
Hideki Imai

Hideki Imai

male, 66 years old
modern cryptographer, electrical engineering, IEEE, Information theorist, Ph.D., International Association for Cryptologic Research…public-key cryptography
is an information theorist and cryptographer, currently a full professor in the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo. His...
James H. Ellis

James H. Ellis

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

Burt Kaliski

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, linear cryptanalysis, Erdős number 3, modern cryptographer, public key cryptography, block cipher…Public-key cryptographer
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...
Bobby Ray Inman

Bobby Ray Inman

male, 78 years old
Conservatism, from Texas, International Signal and Control, public key cryptography, Intelligence Community, Naval Intelligence
Bobby Ray Inman (born April 4, 1931 in Rhonesboro, Texas) is a retired U.S. admiral who held several influential positions in the U.S. Intelligence...
Martin Hellman

Martin Hellman

male, 64 years old
Erdős number 3, Stanford University, Bronx High School of Science, Master's Degree, Stanford University alumni, Ph.D.…public key cryptography, Public-key cryptographer
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle....
Ralph Merkle

Ralph Merkle

male, 57 years old
Georgia Institute of Technology faculty, The Diamond Age, science fiction, Ralph C. Merkle, public key cryptography, molecular nanotechnology…Public-key cryptographer
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...