Information Security

Diffie and Hellman's groundbreaking 1976 paper, 'New Directions in Cryptography', introduced the ideas of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, which are the foundation for most regularly-used security protocols on the internet today." Diffie received an honorary doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992.

Core concepts related to information security (data confidentiality, data integrity, authentication and non-repudiation) are also central to cryptography.

Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys.

a turning point, and marked the closure of classical cryptography and the beginning of modern cryptography

Felten has done a variety of computer security research, including work on proof-carrying authentication and work on security related to the Java programming language, but he is perhaps best known for his paper on the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) challenge.

She is the founder and director of the Public Interest Tech Lab, founded in 2021 with a $3 million grant from the Ford Foundation as well as the Data Privacy Lab.

He served as Executive Director of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute from May 2021 to November 2025.

In the late 1990s, his focus shifted to computer security.

He is best known for creating the Morris worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet.

Ross John Anderson (15 September 1956-28 March 2024) was a British researcher, author, and industry consultant in security engineering.

is an American computer security author, researcher and professional

he is also known for developing the Tarsnap online backup service

is a security specialist from Russia

Director of Software Engineering and IT Security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Design (IEM)

computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker

is a Russian cybersecurity expert who is the co-founder and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab

he wrote the first commercial anti-virus software, founding McAfee Associates to sell his creation

Pierangela Samarati from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engine

American computer security expert

She subsequently serves as the chairperson of the Verified Voting Foundation and coauthored a book on the flaws of electronic voting

cybersecurity policy expert

Her contributions in computer science include breakthroughs in computational linguistics applied to computer security.

He gave the definition of "computer virus".

sponsoring Honeywell's innovative Corporate Information Management Information Security Awareness Program (ISAP)

is a cyber technology and security author and researcher

In computer security, a hash chain is a method used to produce many one-time keys from a single key or password.

Shacham's research covers the areas of cryptography and security.

His research specialty is in the design and analysis of algorithms for graph drawing, computational geometry, and computer security.

He was also a pioneer of privacy rights, social critic of technology policy, and a founder in the field of computer security.

He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2023 for his contributions to cybersecurity education and research.

His research interests include computational number theory, cryptology, and information security.