List of cryptographers

Modern

• Carlisle Adams, Can, co-developer of the CAST series of encryption algorithms, one of which was an AES contest participant. Initials accidentally correspond to first 2 letters of CAST. See also Stafford Tavares.
• Leonard Adleman, US, the 'A' in RSA, now at the University of Southern California. Has done pioneering work in DNA computing.
• Ross Anderson, UK, Cambridge University Professor, Department Director, author of many books and articles who has done important work on several aspects of cryptography and information security, including analysis of trusted computing devices, security of bank systems, robustness of protocols, steganography, "Soft TEMPEST"; cryptanalysed a number of algorithms; designed several including co-designing Serpent (an AES finalist) and Tiger a message digest algorithm. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14
• Adam Back, UK, hashcash, implemented Eternity server, RSA in 3 lines of perl on t-shirt for exportation.
• Don Beaver, US, secure multiparty protocols, one-time tables, locally-random reductions, commodity crypto, adaptive security, simulatable encryption, deniability, provable security and universal composability, quantum cryptography. See http://home.comcast.net/~beaverwww/
• Mihir Bellare, US, Random oracles, provable security
• Daniel J. Bernstein, US, got US regulations on control of software cryptography code changed in Bernstein v. United States and also proposed interesting ideas for the factorization of large composite numbers, the goal being to break bigger RSA keys. See http://cr.yp.to/djb.html
• George Blakley, US, independent inventor of secret sharing
• Matt Blaze, US, demonstrated a security problem with the NSA Clipper chip design, published a description of a (long known 'to the trade') security problem with master keying of physical locks, and designed and implemented the Cryptographic File System for the Unix Operating System. See http://www.crypto.com
• Stefan Brands, Netherlands and CAN ?, Associate Professor in Computer Science, McGill University. Author of work on digital credentials.
• Dan Boneh, Israel and US ?, Associate Professor, Applied Cryptography Group, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. With G. Durfee, coauthor of the Cryptanalysis of RSA with private key d less than N^0.292. See http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/
• Gilles Brassard, CAN, Professor Computer Science, Université de Montréal. Co-invented quantum cryptography amongst much other work. See http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~brassard
• David Chaum, US. Author of work on anonymity systems, blind signatures.
• Don Coppersmith, US, one of the IBM team which designed the entry in the NBS competition which resulted in (after NSA / NBS modification) the Data Encryption Standard
• Claude Crépeau, CAN, Professor in Computer Science at McGill University. Zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computations, oblivious transfer, quantum information theory. See http://crypto.cs.mcgill.ca/~crepeau
• Joan Daemen, Belgian, co-developer of Rijndael which became the AES encryption algorithm. Prolific developer of cryptographic algorithms.
• Whitfield Diffie, US, one of the public inventors of asymmetric key cryptography and author
• James Ellis, UK, staff member of GCHQ who proved the possibility of 'non-secret' encryption. That proof led Clifford Cocks to invent (first) what has become known as the RSA encryption algorithm, and Malcolm Williamson (note: not the composer) to invent (first) what has become known as the Diffie-Hellman protocol.
• Taher Elgamal, US (born Egyptian), inventor of the Elgamal discrete log cryptosystem, and chief designer of the SSL protocol while at Netscape Communications Corporation
• Horst Feistel, US. Involved in early work on block ciphers at IBM, including Lucifer, DES, SP-networks and Feistel networks.
• Ian Goldberg, US, broke many cryptosystems with David Wagner.
• Lars Knudsen, Denmark, designed and analysed a large number of symmetric algorithms.
• Neal Koblitz, creator of hyperelliptic curve cryptography and independent co-creator of elliptic curve cryptography.
• Paul Kocher, US, discovered differential power analysis and designed SSLv3 See http://www.cryptography.com
• Mitsuru Matsui, Japan, discovered linear cryptanalysis, and helped design the MISTY-1, MISTY-2 and Camellia algorithms.
• Victor Miller, independent co-creator of elliptic curve cryptography.
• Bart Preneel, co-author of RIPEMD-160. See http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~preneel
• Charles Rackoff, US and CAN, Professor in Computer Science at University of Toronto. Co-author of The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof Systems with Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali. See http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty/rackoff.html
• Vincent Rijmen, Belgian, co-developer of Rijndael which became the AES algorithm. See http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen
• Ronald L. Rivest, US, the 'R' in RSA, Professor at MIT and prolific crypto algorithm inventor. See http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/
• Philip Rogaway, US, Random oracles, provable security.
• Adi Shamir, Israel, the 'S' in RSA now at Weizmann Institute, Israel. A prolific inventor of crypto algorithms, protocols, and cryptanalytic techniques.
• Bruce Schneier, US, CTO and founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., one of the developers of Twofish, an AES contest finalist, several other encryption algorithms, a random number generator or two, etc. Author of Crypto-Gram a monthly newsletter on cryptography topics and several influential books. See http://www.counterpane.com (Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.) or http://www.schneier.com/ (personal website),
• Stafford Tavares, Can, co-developer of the CAST series of encryption algorithms, one of which was an AES contest participant. Initials accidentally correspond to last 2 letters of CAST. See also Carlisle Adams.
• David Wagner, US, discovered attacks on many widely deployed algorithms and was one of the developers of Twofish, an AES contest finalist
• Xiaoyun Wang, China, one of the authors of the most successful breaks on commonly used hash like MD5 and SHA-1. See http://www.infosec.sdu.edu.cn/people/wangxiaoyun.htm