List of cryptographers

Alphabetical list of notable cryptographers, with home pages if they have one:

• Leonard Adleman, the A in RSA, now at the University of Southern California
• Leo Marks, World War II cryptographer and SOE spymaster
• Joan Daemen, one of the developers of the AES encryption algorithm
• Whitfield Diffie, one of the public inventors of asymmetric key cryptography
• William F. Friedman - Introduced mathematical and scientific methods into cryptology, founding modern cryptography.
• Edgar Allan Poe, author with a keen interest in cryptography
• Vincent Rijmen, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen, the other inventor of the AES algorithm
• Ronald L. Rivest, http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rive/A> the R in RSA, still at MIT
• Adi Shamir, the S in RSA now at Weizmann Institute, Israel
• Bruce Schneier, CTO and founder of of Counterpane, http://www.counterpane.com, one of the developers of Blowfish, an AES contest finalist
• Alan Turing, one of the most original minds of the 20th century and one the chief cryptographers at Bletchley Park during World War II
• Phil Zimmermann, http://web.mit.edu/p/A> developer of the PGP crypto system

Here is a list of links to cryptographers' home pages: http://www.swcp.com/~mccurley/cryptographers/cryptographers.html This link should stay here only until we make a good enough list.

See also: cryptography