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...
Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir

male, 57 years old
RSA, cryptography, Cryptographer, ron rivest, Jewish person, computer scientist
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…cryptography
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…cryptography
Whitfield Diffie is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. He is Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems,...
Ross Anderson

Ross Anderson

male
economics of security, Erdős number 3, vehicle monitoring system, Computer engineering, varsity, Fish…cryptography
Ross J. Anderson is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is a professor in security engineering at Cambridge...
Alan Turing

Alan Turing

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

Simon Singh

male, 45 years old
punjabi, New Look, Sikh, scientific, Maths, University of the West of England…cryptography
Simon Lehna Singh (born 1964) is an Indian-British author of Punjabi background with a doctorate in physics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who...
David Wagner

David Wagner

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

Matt Blaze

male
University of Pennsylvania, Clipper chip, trust management, word coinage, coined, Ipsec…cryptography
Matt Blaze is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer...

William Stallings

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Data and Computer Communications, Cryptography and Network Security, Wireless Communications and Networking, Computer Organization and Architecture, Operating Systems…cryptography
William Stallings is an American computer scientist, best known for his textbooks on computer science topics such as operating systems, computer...