List of cryptographers

This is a list of cryptographers. Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties called adversaries.

Pre twentieth century edit

World War I and World War II wartime cryptographers edit

Other pre-computer edit

Modern edit

See also: Category:Modern cryptographers for a more exhaustive list.

Symmetric-key algorithm inventors edit

Asymmetric-key algorithm inventors edit

 
Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ronald Rivest, and Adi Shamir at RSA 2008

Cryptanalysts edit

Algorithmic number theorists edit

Theoreticians edit

Government cryptographers edit

Cryptographer businesspeople edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Whitman and Mattord (2010). Principles of Information Security (4th ed.). Course Technology. p. 351. ISBN 978-1111138219.
  2. ^ David Salomon. Coding for Data and Computer Communications. Springer, 2005.
  3. ^ Fred A. Stahl. "A homophonic cipher for computational cryptography" Proceedings of the national computer conference and exposition (AFIPS '73), pp. 123–126, New York City, 1973.
  4. ^ Worrall, Simon (7 October 2017). "This Woman Saved the Americas From the Nazis". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

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