Security And Privacy

Pioneers whose defining contribution is protecting information and communication from adversaries, whether through the mathematics of secrecy or the organizational practice of defending systems, the ACM Computing Classification System's Security and Privacy area. This folds together the atlas's former Cryptography field (Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman's public key cryptography, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman's RSA algorithm, Bruce Schneier's applied cryptography, Taher Elgamal's ElGamal cryptosystem) and its former Information Security field (Cliff Stoll's tracking of an intruder that helped found network security practice, Roger Needham's authentication protocol work, David Wagner's research breaking flawed security implementations). Does not belong here: a pioneer whose defining work is a general algorithm or data structure with no security application, filed under Theory of Computation or Software and Its Engineering instead.