Cryptography

Science

Michael O. Rabin

Israeli computer scientist who brought randomness and nondeterminism into computing

1931 – 2026

Science

Andrew Yao

Turing Award-winning theorist who built China’s top computer science programme

Born 1946

Science

Martin Hellman

Stanford cryptographer who co-invented public-key cryptography

Born 1945

Science

Leonard Adleman

Co-inventor of RSA encryption and pioneer of DNA computing

Born 1945

Science

Adi Shamir

Israeli cryptographer, the “S” in RSA

Born 1952

Science

Whitfield Diffie

Co-inventor of public-key cryptography

Born 1944

Science

Manuel Blum

Venezuelan-born computer scientist who co-invented CAPTCHA

Born 1938

Science

Silvio Micali

Italian-American cryptographer and founder of the Algorand blockchain

Born 1954

Science

Shafi Goldwasser

Cryptographer who co-invented zero-knowledge proofs

Born 1958

Science

Ron Rivest

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

Born 1947

Technology

Bruce Schneier

Cryptographer and security expert known for Applied Cryptography

Born 1963