Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier

male, 46 years old
Computer security specialist, American, BT Counterpane, modern cryptographer, cryptography, Cryptographer
Bruce Schneier is president of Counterpane Systems, the author of Applied Cryptography, and the inventor the Blowfish algorithm. He serves on the...
Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
computer scientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist…Cryptographer
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...
Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir

male, 57 years old
RSA, cryptography, Cryptographer, ron rivest, Jewish person, computer scientist…Public-key cryptographer, modern cryptographer
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...
Ron Rivest

Ron Rivest

male, 62 years old
RSA, public-key, computer scientist, modern cryptographer, Turing Award laureate, From Schenectady…Public-key cryptographer, Cryptographer
Professor Ronald Lorin Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer...
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…modern cryptographer, 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,...
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.…Cryptographer, Public-key cryptographer, modern cryptographer
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle....
Leo Marks

Leo Marks

male, deceased (2001)
Jewish, World War II, British Military, scientist, Screenwriter, Jewish person…Pre-computer cryptographer, Cryptographer
Leopold Samuel Marks (September 24, 1920-January 15, 2001) was an English cryptographer and scriptwriter.

Robert Morris

male
Y Combinator, Morris, Morris Worm, scientist at Bell Labs, password, trap-door…modern cryptographer, Cryptographer
Robert "Bob" Morris is an American cryptographer. He was an employee of Bell Labs and later served as chief scientist of the National Security...
Vincent Rijmen

Vincent Rijmen

male, 39 years old
Graz University of Technology, Rijndael, Cryptomathic, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, square, shark…modern cryptographer, Cryptographer
Vincent Rijmen (born 16 October 1970, in Leuven, near Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the designers of the Rijndael, the...
Paul Kocher

Paul Kocher

male, 36 years old
Stanford University alumni, From Oregon, Paul Carl Kocher, vegetarian, Erdős number 4, DSA…modern cryptographer, Cryptographer
Paul Carl Kocher (born June 11, 1973) is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president of Cryptography Research,...