- Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is president of Counterpane Systems, the author of Applied Cryptography, and the inventor the Blowfish algorithm. He serves on the board of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal, and a frequent writer and lecturer on cryptography.
- Adi Shamir
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 of the inventors of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.
- Ron Rivest
Professor Ronald Lorin Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (CSAIL). He is most celebrated for his work on public-key encryption with Len Adleman and Adi Shamir, specifically the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award.
- Whitfield Diffie
Whitfield Diffie is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. He is Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, Vice-President and Sun Fellow. Andrew Sentence is an external member of the Monetary Policy of the Bank of England, the body responsible for setting interest rates in the UK to meet the Government's inflation target.
- Ross Anderson
Ross J. Anderson is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is a professor in security engineering at Cambridge University where he leads the computer security group. In cryptography, he, together with Eli Biham, designed the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives, the block cipher Serpent (with Biham and Lars Knudsen), and the stream cipher Pike. He has also discovered weaknesses in many algorithms (FISH) and security systems.
- Alan Turing
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 correspond roughly to the eight sections of my full biography Alan Turing : the enigma. There are no hyperlinks in the text. For links and for more images, go to the corresponding page of the Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook. Part 8 - Alan Turing 's Crisis
- Simon Singh
Simon Lehna Singh (born 1964) is an Indian-British author of Punjabi background with a doctorate in physics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who has specialized in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. He is the youngest of three brothers, his eldest brother being Tom Singh the founder of the UK New Look chain of stores. His written works include "Fermat's Last Theorem" (in the United States, …
- David Wagner
David A. Wagner (1974) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in cryptography and computer security. He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee, tasked with assisting the EAC in drafting the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. Wagner received an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1995, …
- Matt Blaze
Matt Blaze is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania; he received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University. In 1993, Blaze published (with John Ioannidis) a paper presenting a protocol ("swIPe") that was to be one of the forerunners of IPsec.
- William Stallings
William Stallings is an American computer scientist, best known for his textbooks on computer science topics such as operating systems, computer networks, computer organization, and cryptography. Stallings received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and his doctorate in computer science from MIT. He is currently working as an independent consultant.
- David Chaum
David Chaum is the inventor of many cryptographic protocols and has contributed to the advancement of electronic cash. Chaum founded DigiCash in 1990, an electronic cash company. Additionally, in 1982 he founded the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), which currently organizes some of the most important academic conferences in cryptography research. Dr.
- Dan Boneh
Dan Boneh is an associate professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a well known researcher in the areas of applied cryptography and computer security. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1996 (under the supervision of Richard J. Lipton). Boneh is one of the principal contributors to the development of pairing-based cryptography.
- Oded Goldreich
Oded Goldreich is a professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computing. Specifically, the interplay of randomness and computation, the foundations of cryptography and complexity theory at large. Goldreich made notable contributions to the development of zero knowledge proofs and in secure function evaluation.
- Mihir Bellare
Mihir Bellare is a cryptographer at the University of California, San Diego. He has published several seminal papers in the field of cryptography, many coauthored with Phillip Rogaway. His students include Michel Abdalla, Chanathip Namprempre and Tadayoshi Kohno.
- David Kahn
David Kahn (born February 7, 1930) is a US historian, journalist and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Kahn's first book was "The Codebreakers" (1967), widely considered a definitive account of the history of cryptography up to the early 1960s.
- Niels Ferguson
Niels Ferguson is a Dutch cryptographic engineer and consultant who currently works for Microsoft. He has worked with others, including Bruce Schneier, designing cryptographic algorithms, testing algorithms and protocols, and writing papers and books. In 2001, he claimed to have broken the HDCP system that is incorporated into HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs players, similar to the DVDs Macrovision, but has not published his research, …
- Paul Kocher
Paul Carl Kocher (born June 11, 1973) is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president of Cryptography Research, Inc. Among his most significant achievements are the development of timing attacks that can break online implementations of RSA, DSA and fixed-exponent Diffie-Hellman under certain circumstances, as well as the co-development of power analysis and differential power analysis. He also contributed to the design of Deep Crack, …
- Moni Naor
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 University of California, Berkeley. His adviser was Manuel Blum. He works in various fields of computer science, mainly the foundations of cryptography. He is especially notable for creating Visual cryptography (with Adi Shamir), …
- Steven Levy
Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. Levy is chief technology writer and a senior editor for "Newsweek", writing mainly in the "Science & Technology" section. He also writes the column "Random Access" in the monthly feature "Focus On Technology." Levy is also a contributor to "Wired", and has had articles published on "Harper's", …
- Silvio Micali
Silvio Micali is an Italian-born computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of computer science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since 1983. His research centers on the theory of cryptography and information security. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982. Micali won the Gödel Prize in 1993.
- Alfred Menezes
Alfred Menezes is co-author of several books on cryptography, most notably the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography". Menezes is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Managing Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research.
- Victor Shoup
Victor Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, and is currently a Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He has previously held positions at AT&T Bell Labs, the University of Toronto, Saarland University, and the IBM Zurich Research Lab. Shoup's main research interests are computer algorithms relating to number theory, algebra, …
- Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated with an AB in computer science from UC Berkeley and completed his PhD in cryptography at MIT, in the Theory of Computation group. He has taught at UC Davis since 1994. Dr. Rogaway's papers cover topics including: * Probabilistic Signature Scheme * OCB mode * DES and DES-X * Random oracle * Zero-knowledge proof * SEAL * CMAC * UMAC
- Shafi Goldwasser
Shafrira Goldwasser (born 1958) is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Born in New York City, she obtained her B.S. (1979) in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.S. (1981) and Ph.D (1983) in computer science from UC Berkeley. She joined MIT in 1983, and in 1997 became the first holder of the RSA Professorship.
- Josef Pieprzyk
Josef Pieprzyk is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has worked on cryptography, in particular the XSL attack. He collaborated in the invention of the LOKI and LOKI97 block ciphers and the HAVAL cryptographic hash function.
- Scott Vanstone
Dr. Scott A. Vanstone Founder & Executive Vice-President Strategic Technology One of the founders of Certicom, Dr. Vanstone is also a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Vanstone devotes much of his research to the efficient implementation of the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for the provision of information security services in handheld computers, smart cards, wireless devices and integrated circuits.
- Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".
- Arjen Lenstra
Arjen K. Lenstra is a Dutch mathematician. He studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently a professor at the EPFL (Lausanne), in the Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms, and previously worked for Citibank and Bell Labs. Lenstra is active in cryptography, especially in areas such as integer factorization and the XTR cryptosystem. He has been involved in the successful factoring of several RSA numbers.
- Lars Knudsen
Lars Ramkilde Knudsen (born February 21, 1962) is a Danish researcher in cryptography, particularly interested in the design and analysis of block ciphers, hash functions and message authentication codes (MACs). After some early work in banking, Knudsen enrolled at Aarhus University in 1984 studying mathematics and computer science, gaining a MSc in 1992 and a PhD in 1994. From 1997-2001, he worked at the University of Bergen, Norway.
- Andrew Odlyzko
Andrew Odlyzko is a mathematician who is the head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center. In the field of mathematics he has published extensively on analytic number theory, computational number theory, cryptography, algorithms and computational complexity, combinatorics, probability, and error-correcting codes. In the early 1970s, he was a co-author of one of the founding papers of the modern umbral calculus.
- Stefan Lucks
Stefan Lucks is a researcher in the fields of communications security and cryptography. Lucks is known for his attack on Triple DES, and for extending Lars Knudsen's Square attack to Twofish, a cipher outside the Square family, thus generalising the attack into integral cryptanalysis. He has also co-authored attacks on AES, LEVIATHAN, and the E0 cipher used in Bluetooth devices, as well as publishing strong password-based key agreement schemes.
- Marian Rejewski
Marian Adam Rejewski (16 August 1905 - 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who, in 1932, solved the Enigma machine, the main cipher device used by Germany. The success of Rejewski and his colleagues jump-started British reading of Enigma in World War II, and the intelligence so gained, code-named "Ultra", contributed, perhaps decisively, to the defeat of Nazi Germany<sup>(Note 1)</sup>.
- William F. Friedman
William Frederick Friedman (September 24, 1891 - November 12, 1969) was a US Army cryptologist. He ran the research division of the Army's Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and its follow-on services into the 1950s. In the late 1930s, subordinates of his led by Frank Rowlett broke Japan's PURPLE cipher, thus disclosing Japanese diplomatic secrets in the World War II era.
- Joseph H. Silverman
Joe is a co-inventor of the NTRU public key cryptographic system. A Professor of Mathematics at Brown University since 1988, Joe has previously held academic positions at MIT, Boston University and Universite de Paris VII. He is the author of six standard reference texts on number theory, elliptic curves, Diophantine geometry, and arithmetic dynamics, and has published over 100 articles on number theory, dynamics and cryptography.
- Nicolas Courtois
Nicolas Courtois is a cryptographer, notable for creating (along with Josef Pieprzyk) the XSL attack. He works on cryptosystems and cryptographic attacks based on multivariate polynomial equations over finite fields. Courtois graduated from University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie, where he got his doctoral degree in cryptography. The XSL attack is a method of cryptanalysis for block ciphers, …
- Gerhard Frey
Gerhard Frey is a German mathematician, known for his work in number theory. The Frey curve was an inspired construction of an elliptic curve from a purported solution to the Fermat equation. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Tübingen, graduating in 1967. He continued his postgraduate studies in Heidelberg where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1970 and his "Habilitation" in 1973.
- Ivan Damgård
Ivan Damgård is a professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He researches and teaches cryptography and is known among other things for the Merkle-Damgård construction used in most modern cryptographic hash functions such as SHA-1 and MD5. He discovered the structure independently of Ralph Merkle and published it in 1989. Ivan Damgård is also one of the founders of the Cryptomathic company.
- David Wheeler
David John Wheeler FRS (9 February 1927 - 13 December 2004) was a computer scientist. He was born in Birmingham and gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge to read mathematics, graduating in 1948. His contributions to the field included work on the EDSAC and the Burrows-Wheeler transform. Along with Maurice Wilkes and Stanley Gill he is credited with the invention of the subroutine (which they referred to as the "closed subroutine").
- Rafail Ostrovsky
Dr. Rafail Ostrovsky 's research interests include all aspects of the theory of computation, especially in cryptography, network algorithms, analysis and classification of high-dimensional data. Specifically, Dr. Ostrovsky works on interactive passwords, fault-tolerance, multi-party computation, zero-knowledge, algorithms for high-dimensional geometric problems such as clustering and nearest-neighbor search, metric embeddings, and routing and flow control in communication networks.
- Willy Susilo
Willy Susilo is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Informatics in University of Wollongong, Australia. He is currently the director of Centre for Computer and Information Security Research (CCISR), School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, University of Wollongong. He obtained his PhD from the University of Wollongong in 2001.