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| x Joan Daemen | Advanced Encryption Standard |
Joan Daemen (Dutch pronunciation: [joːˈɑn ˈdaːmən]; born 1965, in Achel, Limburg, Belgium) is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the designers of Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), together with Vincent Rijmen. He has also designed or...
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| x Vincent Rijmen |
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Advanced Encryption Standard |
Vincent Rijmen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɛimən]; born 16 October 1970, in Leuven, near Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the two designers of the Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijmen is also the co-designer of the...
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| x Daniel J. Bernstein |
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Salsa20 |
Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb; born October 29, 1971) is a mathematician, cryptologist, programmer, and professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of the computer software programs...
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| x Don Coppersmith | Lucifer |
Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM, particularly the design of the S-boxes, strengthening them against differential cryptanalysis. He has also...
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| x Ross Anderson |
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Serpent |
Ross John Anderson, FRS, (born 1956) is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is Professor in Security Engineering at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, where he is engaged in the Security Group.
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| x George Blakley |
George Robert (Bob) Blakley Jr. is an American cryptographer and a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M; University, best known for inventing a secret sharing scheme in 1979.
Blakley did his undergraduate studies in physics at Georgetown University...
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| x Horst Feistel |
Horst Feistel (January 30, 1915–November 14, 1990) was a German-born cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research that would culminate in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s.
Feistel...
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| x Lars Knudsen |
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Serpent |
Lars Ramkilde Knudsen (born 21 February 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,...
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| x Ralph Merkle | Khufu and Khafre |
Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is a researcher in public key cryptography, and more recently a researcher and speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics. Merkle appears in the science fiction novel The Diamond Age, involving...
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| x Bart Preneel | Trivium |
Bart Preneel is a Belgian cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group, president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and project manager of ECRYPT.
Simultaneously...
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| x Ronald Rivest |
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RC2 |
Ronald Linn Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer. He is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer...
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| x Bruce Schneier |
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Twofish |
Bruce Schneier ( /ˈʃnaɪər/; born January 15, 1963) is an American cryptographer, computer security specialist, and writer. He is the author of several books on general security topics, computer security and cryptography, and is the founder and chief...
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| x Adi Shamir |
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RSA |
Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and...
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| x Leonard Adleman |
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RSA |
Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is an American theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest...
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| x David Chaum |
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David Chaum is the inventor of many cryptographic protocols, including blind signature schemes, commitment schemes, and digital cash. In 1982, Chaum founded the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), which currently organizes...
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| x Whitfield Diffie |
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Whitfield Diffie, who holds the position of Distinguished Engineer
at Sun Microsystems Laboratories is best known for his 1975 discovery
of the concept of public key cryptography, for which he was awarded a
Doctorate in Technical Sciences (Honoris...
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| x Taher Elgamal |
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ElGamal encryption |
Dr. Taher Elgamal (Arabic: طاهر الجمل) (born 18 August 1955) is an Egyptian cryptographer. Elgamal is sometimes written as El Gamal or ElGamal, but Elgamal is now preferred. In 1985, Elgamal published a paper titled A Public key Cryptosystem and A...
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| x Shafi Goldwasser |
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Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born 1958) is a 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, Goldwasser...
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| x Martin Hellman |
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Martin Edward Hellman (born October 2, 1945) is an American cryptologist, and is best known for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman is a long-time contributor to the computer...
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| x Neal Koblitz |
Neal I. Koblitz (born December 24, 1948) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington in the Department of Mathematics. He is also an adjunct professor with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at the University of Waterloo...
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| x Alfred Menezes |
Alfred Menezes is co-author of several books on cryptography, most notably the Handbook of Applied Cryptography, and is a professor of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
He received B.Math, M.Math, and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics...
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| x Silvio Micali |
Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) 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...
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| x Victor S. Miller |
Victor Saul Miller (born 3 March 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, US) is an American mathematician at the Center for Communications Research (CCR) of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey, US. He received his A.B. in mathematics...
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| x Pascal Paillier |
Pascal Paillier is a researcher in cryptography. He is the inventor of the Paillier cryptosystem.
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| x Michael O. Rabin |
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Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין, born September 1, 1931), is an Israeli computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.
Rabin was born in 1931 in Breslau, Germany, (today Wrocław, in Poland), the son of a rabbi. In 1935,...
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| x Eli Biham |
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Serpent |
Eli Biham (Hebrew: אלי ביהם) is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology Computer Science department. Starting from October 2008, Biham is the dean of the Technion Computer...
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| x Matt Blaze | MacGuffin |
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...
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| x Dan Boneh |
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Dan Boneh ( /boʊˈneɪ/; Hebrew: דן בונה) is a 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.
Born in Israel in 1969, Boneh...
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| x Niels Ferguson | Twofish |
Niels T. Ferguson (born 10 December 1965, Eindhoven) is a Dutch cryptographer and consultant who currently works for Microsoft. He has worked with others, including Bruce Schneier, designing cryptographic algorithms, testing algorithms and protocols...
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| x Ian Goldberg |
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Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner), and for his role as Chief Scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero-Knowledge Systems), a...
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| x Paul Kocher |
Paul Carl Kocher (born June 11, 1973) is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president and chief scientist of Cryptography Research, Inc.
Among his most significant achievements are the development of timing attacks...
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| x Mitsuru Matsui | KASUMI |
Mitsuru Matsui (松井 充, Matsui Mitsuru, born September 16, 1961) is a Japanese cryptographer and senior researcher for Mitsubishi Electric Company.
While researching error-correcting codes in 1990, Matsui was inspired by Eli Biham and Adi Shamir's...
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| x David Wagner |
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David A. Wagner (1974) is a 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...
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| x Xiaoyun Wang |
Wang Xiaoyun (simplified Chinese: 王小云; traditional Chinese: 王小雲; pinyin: Wáng Xiǎoyún) (born 1966) is a researcher and professor in the Department of Mathematics and System Science, Shandong University, Shandong, China.
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| x Mihir Bellare |
Mihir Bellare is a cryptographer and professor at the University of California, San Diego. He has published several seminal papers in the field of cryptography (notably in the area of provable security), many coauthored with Phillip Rogaway. Bellare...
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| x Gilles Brassard |
Gilles Brassard was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1955. He received a Masters degree from the Université de Montréal in 1975, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1979, working in the field of cryptography with John...
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| x Claude Crépeau |
Dr. Claude Crépeau is a professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. Ηe was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1962. He received a Masters degree from the Université de Montréal in 1986, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer...
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| x Oded Goldreich |
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Oded Goldreich (Hebrew: עודד גולדרייך; b. 1957) 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 computation....
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| x Rafail Ostrovsky |
Rafail Ostrovsky (born 1963) is a professor of computer science and mathematics at UCLA and a well-known researcher in algorithms and cryptography. Prof. Ostrovsky received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992. He is a member of the Editorial Board of...
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| x Charles Rackoff |
Charles Weill Rackoff is an American cryptologist. Born and raised in New York City, Rackoff attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student, and earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1974. He spent a year as a postdoctoral scholar...
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| x Phillip Rogaway |
Phillip Rogaway is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated with an BA in computer science from UC Berkeley and completed his PhD in cryptography at MIT, in the Theory of Computation group. He has taught...
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| x Gustavus Simmons |
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Gustavus J. Simmons (born 1930) is a retired cryptographer and former manager of the applied mathematics Department and Senior Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. He has worked primarily with authentication theory, developing cryptographic...
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| x James H. Ellis |
James Henry Ellis (25 September 1924 – 25 November 1997) was a British engineer and mathematician. In 1970, while working at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham he conceived of the possibility of "non-secret encryption",...
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| x Malcolm J. Williamson |
Malcolm John Williamson is a British mathematician and cryptographer. In 1974 he developed what is now known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. He was then working at GCHQ and was therefore unable to publicize his research as his work was classified....
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| x Scott Vanstone |
Scott A. Vanstone is a cryptographer who co-authored the Handbook of Applied Cryptography. He is currently on faculty at the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Mathematics and a member of the school's Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He...
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| x Johannes Trithemius |
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Trithemius cipher |
Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German abbot, lexicographer, historian, cryptographer, polymath and occultist who had an influence on later occultism. The name by which he is more commonly...
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| x Charles Wheatstone |
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Playfair cipher |
Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional...
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| x Richard Schroeppel |
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Hasty Pudding cipher |
Richard C. Schroeppel (born 1948) is an American mathematician born in Illinois. His research has included magic squares, elliptic curves, and cryptography. In 1973 he discovered the number of 5x5 normal magic squares, in 1998–1999 he designed the...
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| x Francis Beaufort |
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Beaufort cipher |
Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, FRS, FRGS (27 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer and officer in Britain's Royal Navy. Beaufort was the creator of the Beaufort scale for indicating wind force.
Francis Beaufort was descended...
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| x Leone Battista Alberti |
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Alberti cipher |
Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath. Although he is often characterized as an "architect"...
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| x Lester S. Hill | Hill cipher |
Lester S. Hill (1891–1961) was an American mathematician and educator who was interested in applications of mathematics to communications. He received a Bachelor's degree from Columbia College (1911) and a Ph.D. from Yale University (1926). He...
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| x Felix Delastelle | Bifid cipher |
Félix Marie Delastelle (1840–1902) was a Frenchman most famous for his invention of several systems of polygraphic substitution ciphers including the bifid, trifid, and the four-square ciphers.
David Kahn wrote that "Delastelle invented a...
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| x Kaisa Nyberg | KN-Cipher |
Kaisa Nyberg is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently a professor at Helsinki University of Technology. Her notable work includes the theory of perfect nonlinear S-boxes (now known as Nyberg S-boxes), provably secure block...
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| x Decius Wadsworth | Wadsworth's cipher |
Decius Wadsworth (January 2, 1768 Farmington, Connecticut – November 8, 1821 New Haven, Connecticut) was a Colonel in the U.S. Army before and during the War of 1812. He graduated from Yale University in 1785 with Honors. He was a renowned military...
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| x Aryabhata |
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Aryabhata cipher |
Aryabhata (IAST: Āryabhaṭa, Sanskrit: आर्यभट) (476–550 CE) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His most famous works are the Āryabhaṭīya (499 CE, when he was...
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| x Francis Bacon |
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Bacon's cipher |
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s), KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended...
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| x Serge Vaudenay | Idea NXT |
Serge Vaudenay (5 April 1968-) is a well-known French cryptographer.
Serge Vaudenay entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris as a normalien student in 1989. In 1992, he passed the agrégation in mathematics. He did his PhD at the computer...
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| x James Massey | International Data Encryption Algorithm |
James Lee Massey (born February 11, 1934 in Wauseon, Ohio) is an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work includes the application of the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm to linear...
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| x Xuejia Lai | International Data Encryption Algorithm |
Xuejia Lai (simplified Chinese: 来学嘉; traditional Chinese: 來學嘉; pinyin: Lái Xuéjiā) is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His notable work includes the design of the block cipher IDEA, the theory of Markov...
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