Peter Gutmann

Peter Gutmann

male
Auckland power crisis of 1998, computer scientist, cryptosystem, Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, the longest suicide note in history, great blackout of 1998 in Auckland
Peter Gutmann is a computer scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; he also received...
Arjen Lenstra

Arjen Lenstra

male
MD5, Eindhoven University of Technology, X.509, modern cryptographer, hash collision, Erdős number 2…cryptosystem
Arjen K. Lenstra is a Dutch mathematician. He studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently a professor at the EPFL...
Meredith Gardner

Meredith Gardner

male, deceased (2002)
nsa, venona, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, Japanese, U.S. Army, Signals Intelligence Service cryptographer…cryptosystem
Meredith Knox Gardner (1912-August 20, 2002) was an American linguist and codebreaker, who pulled off one of the greatest U.S. counter-intelligence...
David Naccache

David Naccache

male
white house, Erdős number 2, block cipher, digital signature, Naccache-Stern knapsack cryptosystem, Naccache-Stern cryptosystem
David Naccache is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the University of Paris II and member of the École Normale Supérieure's Computer Lab. He...

James Massey

male, 75 years old
University of Notre Dame, Member of the ETH Zurich, idea, Ph.D., Erdős number 2, Berlekamp-Massey algorithm…Massey-Omura cryptosystem
James Lee Massey (born in 1934 in Wauseon, Ohio) is an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH...

Jacques Stern

male, 60 years old
Erdős number 2, CS-Cipher, Naccache-Stern cryptosystem, Naccache-Stern knapsack cryptosystem, Pointcheval-Stern signature algorithm, block cipher
Jacques Stern is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory. He...
Jim K. Omura

Jim K. Omura

male
Stanford University, engineer, electrical engineer, UCLA, electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni…Massey-Omura cryptosystem
Jim Omura is the commitment lead for the California Institute of Technology Commitment. A UCLA professor of Electrical Engineering for 15 years,...
Michael O. Rabin

Michael O. Rabin

male, 78 years old
Nondeterministic machine, Logician, Jewish person, German, Turing Award, Israel Prize recipient…Rabin cryptosystem
Michael Oser Rabin is a computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award. Rabin was born as the son of a rabbi in what was then known as...
Taher Elgamal

Taher Elgamal

male, 54 years old
Stanford University, RSA Security, Phoenix Technologies, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Securify, Secure Sockets Layer…ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem
Dr. Taher Elgamal (born 18 August 1955) is an Egyptian American cryptographer. Elgamal is sometimes written as El Gamal or ElGamal, but Elgamal is...
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…public-key cryptosystem
Silvio Micali is an Italian-born computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of computer...