Paul Kocher

Cryptographer, Academic

1973 –

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Who is Paul Kocher?

Paul Carl Kocher is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president and chief scientist of Cryptography Research, Inc.

Among his most significant achievements are the development of timing attacks that can break implementations of RSA, DSA and fixed-exponent Diffie–Hellman that operate in non-constant time, as well as the co-development of power analysis and differential power analysis. He also contributed to the design of Deep Crack, a DES brute-force key search machine. He was one of the architects of the Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 protocol, a cryptographic protocol for secure communications on the Internet.

Kocher grew up in Oregon. He received a bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University in 1991, where he worked part-time with Martin Hellman.

Kocher was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for his contributions to cryptography and Internet security.

Kocher was made an ICAR Fellow at Crypto 2014.

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Born
Jun 11, 1973
New York
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Stanford University
Employment
  • Cryptography Research
Lived in
  • Oregon
  • United States of America

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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