List of cryptographers

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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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