Cryptography and Information Security Hall of Fame
Leonard Adleman
(USC): RSA, DNA computing, deterministic primality testing
Ross Anderson
(Cambridge): secure engineering, tamper resistance, Soft Tempest, ATM frauds, Serpent
Adam Back
: hash cash
Mihir Bellare
(UCSD): OAEP, HMAC, practice-oriented provable security, random oracle model
Daniel Bernstein
(UIC): SYN cookies, high-speed cryptography, qmail,
Bernstein v. United States
Eli Biham
(Technion): differential cryptanalysis, differential fault analysis, Serpent
Matt Bishop
(UC Davis): vulnerability analysis, security models,
Computer Security: Art and Science
Matt Blaze
(Penn): key escrow, trust management
Manuel Blum
(CMU): CSPRBG, Blum-Blum-Shub PRBG, probabilistic encryption
Dan Boneh
(Stanford): identity-based encryption
David Chaum
: digital cash, blind signatures, mixnets, electronic votin
g
Don Coppersmith
(IDA): DES, cryptanalysis of RSA
Ronald Cramer
(Leiden U, The Netherlands): Cramer-Shoup encryption scheme
Joan Daemen
: Rijndael
Dorothy Denning
(NPS): information warfare, cyberterrorism, intrusion detection, cryptographic policies
Whitfield Diffie
(Sun Microsystems): public-key cryptography, Diffie-Hellman key agreement, cryptographic policies
Taher ElGamal
(Tumbleweed Communications): ElGamal encryption scheme
Joan Feigenbaum
(Yale): trust management, digital rights management, instance-hiding schemes, mechanism design
Matthew Franklin
(UC Davis): identity-based encryption
Ian Goldberg
(Waterloo): cryptanalysis of SSL and WEP, Off-the-Record Messaging
Oded Goldreich
(Weizmann): zero-knowledge proofs,
Foundations of Cryptography
Shafi Goldwasser
(MIT/Weizmann): zero-knowledge proofs, probabilistic encryption, semantic security
Martin Hellman
(Stanford): public-key cryptography, Diffie-Hellman key agreement, cryptographic policies
Neal Koblitz
(U of Washington): elliptic curve cryptography, hyperelliptic curve cryptography
Paul Kocher
(Cryptography Research): timing attacks, differential power analysis, SSL 3.0
Butler Lampson
(Microsoft): access control matrix, covert channels
Gary McGraw
(Cigital): software security,
Building Secure Software
Alfred Menezes
(Waterloo): elliptic-curve cryptography, MQV key agreement,
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Ralph Merkle
(Georgia Tech): public-key cryptography, iterated hash functions, Merkle's hash trees
Silvio Micali
(MIT): zero-knowledge proofs, probabilistic encryption, semantic security, CSPRBG, Peppercoin
Rafail Ostrovsky
(UCLA): proactive security, private information retrieval
Radia Perlman
(Sun Microsystems): Byzantine failures, spanning tree bridging algorithm
John Pollard
: Pollard's rho method, number field sieve algorithm
Michael Rabin
(Harvard): Miller-Rabin primality test, Rabin cryptosystem, oblivious transfer, hyperencryption
Charles Rackoff
(U of Toronto): zero-knowledge proofs, Luby-Rackoff construction
Vincent Rijmen
(K.U.Leuven, Belgium): Rijndael
Ronald Rivest
(MIT): RSA, RC4/RC5, MD4/MD5, SPKI/SDSI, electronic voting, Peppercoin
Phillip Rogaway
(UC Davis): OAEP, practice-oriented provable security, random oracle model
Avi Rubin
(JHU): electronic voting, RFID security,
Firewalls and Internet Security
Bruce Schneier
(BT Counterpane): Blowfish/Twofish, airport security,
Applied Cryptography
,
Crypto-Gram
Adi Shamir
(Weizmann): RSA, Shamir's secret sharing scheme, differential cryptanalysis, TWINKLE
Victor Shoup
(NYU): Cramer-Shoup encryption scheme, NTL
Douglas Stinson
(Waterloo): combinatorial cryptography,
Cryptography Theory and Practice
Paul Van Oorschot
(Carleton U, Canada): parallel collision search, STS protocol,
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Scott Vanstone
(Waterloo): ECDSA, MQV key agreement, Certicom,
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
David Wagner
(UC Berkeley): cryptanalysis of SSL, WEP and A5/1
Xiaoyun Wang
(Tsinghua): cryptanalysis of hash functions
Tom Wu
(Stanford): SRP protocol
Andrew Yao
(Tsinghua): secure multiparty computation, pseudorandom bit generation
Philip Zimmermann
: PGP
Return
to Kenny Fong's home page
Last updated August 5, 2008