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.…Cryptology
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle....
Marian Rejewski

Marian Rejewski

male, deceased (1980)
World War II, mathematician, cryptography, French, polish, British…Cryptology
Marian Adam Rejewski (16 August 1905 - 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who, in 1932, solved the Enigma machine, the...

Sean Murphy

male
Erdős number 3, NESSIE, ECRYPT, Advanced Encryption Standard, Royal Holloway, University of London, modern cryptographer…Cryptology
Sean Murphy is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He worked on the NESSIE and ECRYPT projects. His...
Henryk Zygalski

Henryk Zygalski

male, deceased (1978)
Liss, Hants, general staff, polish, Pre-computer cryptographer, honoris causa, plymouth…Cryptology
Henryk Zygalski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. Zygalski...
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

female
EUROCRYPT, provable security, information theoretic security, university of calgary, digital and privacy rights management, electrical engineering…Cryptology
Reihaneh (Rei) Safavi-Naini is the iCORE Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada. Before joining University of Calgary...
Orr Dunkelman

Orr Dunkelman

male
Israeli, computer scientist, cryptography, open source software, Cryptology, Benevolent Dictator
Dr. Orr Dunkelman (Ph.D) is an Israeli computer scientist and activist in the Israeli open source software community. He has written several...

Jerzy Różycki

male, deceased (1942)
mathematician, German, polish, geography, Pre-computer cryptographer, cipher…Cryptology
Jerzy Witold Różycki (pronounced ['jεʒɨ ru'ʒɨʦki]; Olshana, near Kiev, Ukraine, July 24, 1909 — January 9, 1942, Mediterranean Sea, near the Balear...
James Gannon

James Gannon

male
Espionage historian, purple, ultra, Cryptology, 20th-century, Second battle of the Atlantic
James Gannon is a freelance writer and producer of documentaries for NBC News. He has published articles in a variety of subjects and venues. He is...
Antoni Palluth

Antoni Palluth

male
Pobiedziska, Greater Poland, German Empire, Cipher Bureau, Nazi concentration camp victim, concentration camp…Cryptology
Antoni Palluth, born in Pobiedziska, Greater Poland (then in German Empire) was a civilian employee in the German section ("BS-4") of the Polish...
David Mertz

David Mertz

male, 45 years old
Marxist writer, University of Colorado, python, Cryptology, O'Reilly Media, Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange
David Mertz (born 1964) is an author and columnist for IBM's developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, O'Reilly's ONLamp, and other online...