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Ian Goldberg
Cryptographer (born 1973) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the television writer, see Ian B. Goldberg.
Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner),[1] and for his role as chief scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero Knowledge Systems), a Canadian software company. Goldberg is currently a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science within the University of Waterloo, and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.[2] He was formerly Tor Project board of directors chairman,[3] and is one of the designers of off the record messaging.[4]
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Born | (1973-03-31) March 31, 1973 (age 51) |
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Known for | Off-the-Record Messaging |
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Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | University of Waterloo |
Thesis | "A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet" (2000) |
Doctoral advisor | Eric Brewer |
Website | www |
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