List of cryptographers

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This is a list of cryptographers. Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties called adversaries.

Contents

Pre twentieth century

World War I and World War II wartime cryptographers

Other pre-computer

Modern

See also: Category:Modern cryptographers for a more exhaustive list.

Symmetric-key algorithm inventors

Asymmetric-key algorithm inventors

Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ronald Rivest, and Adi Shamir at RSA 2008 Cryptographers-2008.jpg
Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ronald Rivest, and Adi Shamir at RSA 2008

Cryptanalysts

Algorithmic number theorists

Theoreticians

Government cryptographers

Cryptographer businesspeople

See also

References

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