David Wagner

David Wagner

male, 35 years old
cryptanalysis, AES competition, University of California, Berkeley, Twofish encryption algorithm, Wired Equivalent Privacy, SSL…mod n cryptanalysis
David A. Wagner (1974) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in...
Eli Biham

Eli Biham

male
impossible differential cryptanalysis, Erdős number 3, Stream cipher, des, tiger, technion…cryptanalysis, differential cryptanalysis
Eli Biham is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology Computer Science...
Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
computer scientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist…cryptanalysis
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...

John Kelsey

male
modern cryptographer, Erdős number 3, side-channel attack, symmetric cryptography, cryptographic protocol, cryptographic random number generation…cryptanalysis
John Kelsey is a cryptographer currently working at NIST. His research interests include cryptanalysis and design of symmetric cryptography...
Alex Biryukov

Alex Biryukov

male
Erdős number 3, impossible differential cryptanalysis, slide attack, University of Luxembourg, cryptographic primitive, Stream cipher…cryptanalysis
Alex Biryukov is a cryptographer, currently an assistant professor at the University of Luxembourg. His notable work includes the design of the...
Don Coppersmith

Don Coppersmith

male
Harvard University, Mars, Institute for Defense Analyses, Erdős number 2, Putnam Fellows, block cipher…differential cryptanalysis, cryptanalysis
Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM,...
Lars Knudsen

Lars Knudsen

male, 47 years old
Erdős number 3, computer scientist, University of Bergen, Technical University of Denmark, block cipher, Data Encryption Standard…cryptanalysis
Lars Ramkilde Knudsen (born February 21, 1962) is a Danish researcher in cryptography, particularly interested in the design and analysis of block...

Xuejia Lai

male
computer scientist, International Data Encryption Algorithm, cryptographic hash function, block cipher, Erdős number 3, Xidian University…cryptanalysis
Xuejia Lai is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His notable work includes the design of the block cipher...
Nicolas Courtois

Nicolas Courtois

male
cryptography, XSL attack, University of Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie, Cryptographic attacks, Rijndael, Advanced Encryption Standard…cryptanalysis
Nicolas Courtois is a cryptographer, notable for creating (along with Josef Pieprzyk) the XSL attack. He works on cryptosystems and cryptographic...
Mitsuru Matsui

Mitsuru Matsui

male
modern cryptographer, MISTY-1, linear cryptanalysis, Biham, differential cryptanalysis, block cipher…cryptanalysis
Mitsuru Matsui is a Japanese cryptographer and senior researcher for Mitsubishi Electric Company. While researching error-correcting codes in 1990,...