Cryptographer

John Kelsey (cryptanalyst)

Cryptographer

Life: 1950 – present
Born: 1950
Nationality: United States

John Kelsey is a cryptographer who works at NIST. His research interests include cryptanalysis and design of symmetric cryptography primitives, analysis and design of cryptographic protocols, cryptographic random number generation, electronic voting, side-channel attacks on cryptography implementations, and anonymizing communications systems. He previously worked at Certicom and Counterpane Internet Security.