Cryptographers

Martin Hellman

Stanford cryptographer who co-invented public-key cryptography

Born 1945

Adi Shamir

Israeli cryptographer, the “S” in RSA

Born 1952

Whitfield Diffie

Co-inventor of public-key cryptography

Born 1944

Phil Zimmermann

Creator of PGP, the first widely available strong email encryption

Born 1954

Moxie Marlinspike

Cryptographer who created the Signal messaging app and protocol

Claude Shannon

Father of information theory and the digital age

1916 – 2001

Silvio Micali

Italian-American cryptographer and founder of the Algorand blockchain

Born 1954

Shafi Goldwasser

Cryptographer who co-invented zero-knowledge proofs

Born 1958

Ron Rivest

MIT cryptographer and the “R” in the RSA encryption system

Born 1947

Bruce Schneier

Cryptographer and security expert known for Applied Cryptography

Born 1963