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
See also: cryptography