This group gathers pioneers of theory of computation whose primary contribution was cryptography and cryptanalysis, including public-key cryptography, digital signatures, secret sharing, zero-knowledge proofs, pseudorandom number generation, hash functions and block ciphers, and the historical codebreaking work at sites such as Bletchley Park that founded the field. It follows the Cryptography second-level heading of the ACM Computing Classification System under Theory of Computation. Their shared work is securing or breaking the security of information through mathematical and computational means, as distinct from computational complexity theory more broadly or general algorithm design. Named "Cryptography and Cryptanalysis" rather than the report own proposed "Cryptography" because computing already carries a live field entity of that exact name.
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1. Wikipedia: Cryptography
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In symmetric systems, the only ones known until the 1970s, the same secret key encrypts and decrypts a message.
Alex Biryukov (Wikipedia)
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In 1998, he developed impossible differential cryptanalysis together with Eli Biham and Adi Shamir.
Leon Battista Alberti (Wikipedia)
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He is considered the founder of European cryptography
Ben Lynn (Stanford personal pages)
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A free pairing-based cryptography library in C.
William F. Friedman (Wikipedia)
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Friedman used his understanding of rotor machines to develop several that were immune to his own attacks.
Elizebeth Smith Friedman (Wikipedia)
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who deciphered enemy codes in both World Wars and helped to solve international smuggling cases during Prohibition
Wikipedia: Gilbert Vernam
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Vernam proposed a teleprinter cipher in which a previously prepared key, kept on paper tape, is combined character by character with the plaintext message to produce the ciphertext.
Lester S. Hill (Wikipedia)
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Among his notable contributions was the Hill cipher.
Edward Hebern (Wikipedia)
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was an early inventor of rotor machines, devices for encryption
John Wallis (Wikipedia)
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Between 1643 and 1689 Wallis served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
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