Moti Yung

Who is Moti Yung?

Mordechai M. Yung is an Israeli-American cryptographer and computer scientist, an employee of Google Inc..

Yung earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1988 under the supervision of Zvi Galil. He has worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, been vice president and chief scientist at CertCo and been director of Advanced Authentication Research at RSA Laboratories, He has also held adjunct and visiting faculty appointments at Columbia, through which he has advised several Ph.D. students including Gödel Prize winner Matthew K. Franklin.

In a 1996 publication with Adam Young, Yung coined the term cryptovirology for the use of cryptography by computer viruses and other malware . Young and Yung are the author of the book Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology. Yung and Young introduced the notion of Kleptography to describe the employment of cryptographic systems inside other cryptographic systems as attack tools by designers and manufacturers where the embedded malicious cryptologic has strong security properties against reverse-engineers.