Eli Biham Scientist

Eli Biham (Hebrew: אלי ביהם‎) is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology Computer Science department. Starting from October 2008, Biham is the dean of the Technion Computer Science department, after serving for two years as chief of CS graduate school.Biham received his Ph.D. for inventing (publicly) differential cryptanalysis, while working under Adi Shamir. It had, it turned out, been invented at least twice before. A team at IBM discovered it during their work on DES, and was requested/required to keep their discovery secret by the NSA, who evidently knew about it as well.

Personal facts

Eli Biham
Birth place
Israel
Nationality
Israel
Education
Weizmann Institute of Science
Tel Aviv University
Known for
Cryptanalysis
Differential cryptanalysis
Encryption
Cryptography

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Field of study
Computer science
Mathematics

Eli Biham on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham