Moni Naor

Moni Naor is an Israeli computer scientist, currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He received his PhD in 1989 at the University of California, Berkeley, under advisor Manuel Blum. He works mainly in the foundations of cryptography, and is notable for initiating research on public key systems secure against chosen ciphertext attack and for creating non-malleable cryptography, visual cryptography, with Adi Shamir, and, with Amos Fiat, the first formal study of practical broadcast encryption in 1994. He also contributed, with Benny Chor, Amos Fiat and Benny Pinkas, to the development of traitor tracing, a copyright-infringement detection system that traces the source of leaked files rather than relying on direct copy protection.