Category
Cryptographers
184 entries
Abraham Lempel
Israeli computer scientist (1936–2023)
1936 – 2023 · Israel
Adam Back
British cryptographer and cypherpunk (born 1970)
1970 – present · United Kingdom
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)
1952 – present · Israel
Ahto Buldas
Estonian computer scientist (born 1967)
1967 – present
Amit Sahai
American cryptographer (born 1974)
1974 – present · United States
Anne Canteaut
French cryptographic researcher
1970 – present · France
Arjen Lenstra
Dutch mathematician (born 1956)
1956 – present
Arthur Levenson
American cryptographer (1914–2007)
1914 – 2007 · United States
Avinash Kak
Indian-American computer scientist (born 1944)
1944 – present · United States
Bram Cohen
American programmer and author of the BitTorrent protocol
1975 – present · United States
Bruce Schneier
American computer scientist (born 1963)
1963 – present · United States
Claude Shannon
American mathematician (1916–2001)
1916 – 2001 · United States
Claus P. Schnorr
German mathematician and cryptographer (1943–2025)
1943 – 2025 · Germany
Clifford Cocks
British cryptographer
1950 – present · United Kingdom
Daniel J. Bernstein
American mathematician, cryptologist and computer scientist (born 1971)
1971 – present · United States
David A. Wagner
American computer scientist (born 1974)
1974 – present · United States
David Chaum
American computer scientist and cryptographer (born 1955)
1955 – present · United States
David Naccache
1967 – present · France
David Wheeler (computer scientist)
British computer scientist (1927–2004)
1927 – 2004 · United Kingdom
Doug Stinson
Canadian mathematician and cryptographer (born 1956)
1956 – present · Canada
Duncan Campbell (journalist, born 1952)
British investigative journalist
1952 – present · United Kingdom
Edward H. Deets
1957 – present · United States
Eli Ben-Sasson
Israeli computer scientist and businessman
1970 – present · Israel
Eli Biham
Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst (born 1960)
1960 – present · Israel
Eric Hughes (cypherpunk)
American mathematician, programmer, and cypherpunk founder
1953 – present
Georg Hamel
German mathematician (1877 - 1954)
1877 – 1954 · Germany
Gerhard Frey (mathematician)
German mathematician (born 1944)
1944 – present · Germany
Gilles Brassard
Canadian computer scientist (born 1955)
1955 – present · Canada
Gustavus Simmons
American mathematician (born 1930)
1930 – present · United States
Hal Finney (computer scientist)
Cryptograph and cypherpunk (1956–2014)
1956 – 2014 · United States
Hugo Hadwiger
Swiss mathematician (1908–1981)
1908 – 1981 · Switzerland
Hugo Krawczyk
Argentine-Israeli cryptographer
2000 – present · Israel
I. J. Good
British statistician and cryptographer (1916–2009)
1916 – 2009 · United Kingdom
Ian Goldberg
Cryptographer (born 1973)
1973 – present · Canada
Jacques Stern (cryptographer)
French cryptographer
1949 – present · France
James Massey
American information theorist, cryptographer, and scholar (1934 – 2013)
1934 – 2013 · United States
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
Belgian cryptographer (born 1945)
1945 – present · Belgium
John Gilmore (activist)
American activist (born 1955)
1955 – present · United States
Jon Callas
American computer security expert
2000 – present · United States
Jon Lech Johansen
Norwegian programmer (born 1983)
1983 – present · Norway
Jude Milhon
American hacker, writer, editor, advocate (1939 - 2003)
1939 – 2003 · United States
Landon Curt Noll
American computer scientist (born 1960)
1960 – present · United States
Len Sassaman
American technologist and cryptographer (1980–2011)
1980 – 2011 · United States
Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist (born 1945)
1945 – present · United States
Lilya Budaghyan
Norwegian-Armenian mathematician, computer scientist (born 1976)
1976 – present · Norway
Mark Shuttleworth
South African entrepreneur and space tourist (born 1973)
1973 – present · South Africa
Martin Hellman
American cryptologist and academic (born 1945)
1945 – present · United States
Matt Blaze
American researcher
1901 – present · United States
Matthew D. Green
American cryptographer and security technologist (born 1976)
1976 – present
Michael Luby
Information theorist and cryptographer
1950 – present · United States
Michael O. Rabin
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist (1931–2026)
1931 – 2026 · Israel
Mohamed M. Atalla
Egyptian engineer (1924–2009)
1924 – 2009
Nadia Heninger
American cryptographer, computer security expert
1982 – present
Nicko van Someren
British computer scientist, cryptographer and entrepreneur
1967 – present · United Kingdom
Niels Provos
German-American computer scientist and software engineer
Oded Goldreich
Israeli computer scientist (born 1957)
1957 – present · Israel
Orr Dunkelman
Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst
1980 – present · Israel
Paul Carl Kocher
American cryptographer and entrepreneur (born 1973)
1973 – present · United States
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto
Brazilian-American cryptographer (born 1965)
1965 – present · Brazil
Peter Landrock
Danish cryptographer and mathematician
1948 – present
Phil Zimmermann
American cryptographer, creator of PGP (born 1954)
1954 – present · United States
Rafail Ostrovsky
American cryptographer (born 1963)
1963 – present · United States
Ralph Merkle
American cryptographer (born 1952)
1952 – present · United States
Richard Leibler
American mathematician and cryptanalyst (1914 - 2003)
1914 – 2003 · United States
Richard Schroeppel
American mathematician
1948 – present · United States
Ron Rivest
American cryptographer (born 1947)
1947 – present · United States
Ross Cohen
American computer programmer
1977 – present · United States
Serge Vaudenay
French cryptographer (born 1968)
1968 – present · France
Shafi Goldwasser
Israeli American computer scientist (born 1959)
1958 – present · United States
Shimon Even
Israeli computer science researcher (1935 – 2004)
1935 – 2004 · Israel
Silvio Micali
Italian-American computer scientist (born 1954)
1954 – present · United States
Steven M. Bellovin
American computer scientist
2000 – present · United States
Subhash Kak
Indian American computer scientist
1947 – present · India
Taher Elgamal
American cryptographer
1955 – present · United States
Tal Rabin
American cryptographer
1962 – present · Israel
Tanja Lange
German cryptographer and mathematician
1975 – present · Germany
Terry Welch
American computer scientist
1939 – 1988 · United States
Vincent Rijmen
Belgian cryptographer (born 1970)
1970 – present · Belgium
Vipul Ved Prakash
Indian software engineer (born 1977)
1977 – present · United States
Werner Koch
German free software developer (born 1961)
1961 – present · Germany
Whitfield Diffie
American cryptographer (born 1944)
1944 – present · United States
XiaoFeng Wang (computer scientist)
Computer scientist
China
Yehuda Lindell
Israeli cryptographer (born 1971)
1971 – present · Israel
Yvo G. Desmedt
Cryptographer (born 1956)
1956 – present
Zodiac Killer
Serial killer in California in the 1960s
United States
Çetin Kaya Koç
Turkish cryptographic engineer
1957 – present · Türkiye