David Chaum

David Chaum

male
E2E, end-to-end auditable, Erdős number 3, Digicash, University of California, Berkeley, International Association for Cryptologic Research…Financial cryptography, cryptography
David Chaum is the inventor of many cryptographic protocols and has contributed to the advancement of electronic cash. Chaum founded DigiCash in...
Dan Boneh

Dan Boneh

male
Stanford University, Matt Franklin, Richard DeMillo, identity-based encryption, pairing-based cryptography, Voltage Security…cryptography
Dan Boneh is an associate professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a well known researcher in the...
Oded Goldreich

Oded Goldreich

male (Israel)
theory of computing, randomness, mathematics, computer scientist, cryptography, modern cryptographer…Foundations of Cryptography
Oded Goldreich is a professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His...
Mihir Bellare

Mihir Bellare

male
Erdős number 3, cryptography, modern cryptographer, University of California, San Diego, Tadayoshi Kohno, Michel Abdalla
Mihir Bellare is a cryptographer at the University of California, San Diego. He has published several seminal papers in the field of cryptography,...
David Kahn

David Kahn

male, 79 years old
Espionage historian, The Codebreakers, Alumni of the University of Oxford, American, Science writer, journalist…cryptography
David Kahn (born February 7, 1930) is a US historian, journalist and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military...
Niels Ferguson

Niels Ferguson

male
dutch, HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection, Macrovision…cryptography
Niels Ferguson is a Dutch cryptographic engineer and consultant who currently works for Microsoft. He has worked with others, including Bruce...
Paul Kocher

Paul Kocher

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

Moni Naor

male
Israeli, computer scientist, cryptography, Weizmann Institute of Science, University of California, Berkeley, Captcha…Visual cryptography
Moni Naor is an Israeli computer scientist, currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Naor received his Ph.D. in 1989 at the...
Steven Levy

Steven Levy

male
Newsweek, American, ipod, wired, journalist, accidentally dumped his AirBook…cryptography
Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet,...
Silvio Micali

Silvio Micali

male, 55 years old
IACR, International Association for Cryptologic Research, Erdős number 3, University of California, Berkeley, Italian-American, Gödel Prize…cryptography
Silvio Micali is an Italian-born computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of computer...