Cryptographer
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto
Brazilian-American cryptographer (born 1965)
- Life
- 1965 – present
- Born
- November 19, 1965
- Nationality
- Brazil
Paulo Licciardi Barreto is a Brazilian-American cryptographer and one of the designers of the Whirlpool hash function and the block ciphers Anubis and KHAZAD, together with Vincent Rijmen. He has also co-authored a number of research works on elliptic curve cryptography and pairing-based cryptography, including the eta pairing technique, identity-based cryptographic protocols, and the family of Barreto–Naehrig (BN) and Barreto–Lynn-Scott (BLS) pairing-friendly elliptic curves
