Paul Syverson | |
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Nationality | American |
Known for | Invention of onion routing |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Indiana University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Mathematics |
Institutions | Center for High Assurance Computer Systems,US Naval Research Laboratory |
Main interests | Traffic-secure communications |
Paul Syverson is a computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing,a feature of the Tor anonymity network. [1] [2]
In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Syverson,and Tor's co-creators Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson,among its Top 100 Global Thinkers "for making the web safe for whistleblowers". [3]
In 2014,Syverson was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. [4] [5]