Charles Weill Rackoff is a noted modern cryptologist. He was born and raised in New York City. Rackoff attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student, and earned a degree in Computer Science in 1974. He spent a year as a post-doc at INRIA in France. Currently he works at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in computational complexity theory. For some time now he has been specializing in cryptography and security prot...
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Charles Weill Rackoff is a noted modern cryptologist. He was born and raised in New York City. Rackoff attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student, and earned a degree in Computer Science in 1974. He spent a year as a post-doc at INRIA in France. Currently he works at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in computational complexity theory. For some time now he has been specializing in cryptography and security protocols. In 1988 he collaborated with Michael Luby in a widely-cited analysis of the Feistel cipher construction (one important result shown there is the construction of a strongly pseudo random permutation generator from a pseudo random function generator). Rackoff was awarded the 1993 Gödel Prize for his work on interactive proof systems and zero-knowledge proofs.
In 2000 Rackoff attracted controversy for an e-mail sent to departmental colleagues on the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre in response to feminists questionably promoting an end...
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