| Paul Syverson | |
|---|---|
|   | |
| 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]