Advisory Board
Our advisory board consists of some of the most esteemed members of the crypto community.
Martin Hellman is best known for his invention of public key cryptography (joint with Diffie and Merkle). He received his BE(EE) magna cum laude from New York University in 1966, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1967 and 1969, both in Electrical Engineering. Prof. Hellman was a member of the research staff at IBM's Watson Research Center from 1968-69 and of MIT's EE faculty from 1969-71. He served on the regular EE faculty at Stanford from 1971 to 1996, when he became Professor Emeritus. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a recipient of the Marconi Award, widely considered the most prestigious award in the field of telecommunications.
Tom Berson has more than 30 years experience in cryptography and computer security. He is currently the founder and owner of Anagram Laboratories. He is also Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, Director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), an editor of the Journal of Cryptology, and serves on the advisory board of the International Journal of Information Security (IJIS). From 1979-1986, he was a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur at Sytek, Inc., a pioneer in broadband local area networking.
Dan Boneh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on cryptography, specifically the security of cryptographic primitives and their application in real-world systems. He is the author of numerous technical papers in the field as well as several patents. At Stanford he leads a number of security-based projects on topics such as intrusion tolerance and security applications for handheld devices. His recent research topics have also included studying the underlying mathematical security of the RSA algorithm and testing real-world systems for vulnerabilities to timing attack cryptanalysis.
Joan Feigenbaum is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Yale University. She received a BA in Mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. Her research interests include Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright. Her current and recent professional service activities include Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology, Board of Directors Member for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, member of the NAS Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Program Chair for the 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, and Tutorial Chair for the 2003 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. Professor Feigenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM.
Peter G. Neumann has doctorates from Harvard and Darmstadt. After 10 years at Bell Labs in the 1960s, he has been in SRI's Computer Science Lab since September 1971, working on computer systems and networks, security, reliability, survivability, safety, and many risks-related issues such as voting-system integrity, crypto policy, and privacy. He moderates the ACM Risks Forum and edits CACM's monthly Inside Risks column. His book, Computer-Related Risks, is in its fifth printing. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. He is a member of the GAO Executive Council on Information Management and Technology, and the NSF CISE Board. He has taught at Stanford, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland.
Bruce Schneier is a prominent technologist and author. He is Founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., a provider of managed security services. Schneier has authored six books, among them Applied Cryptography and Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. He has presented papers at many international conferences, and is a frequent writer and lecturer on the topics of cryptography, computer security, and privacy. His technical work includes designing the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms. Schneier served on the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and is an Advisory Board member for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He holds an MS degree in computer science from American University and a BS degree in physics from the University of Rochester.