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Ueli Maurer (cryptographer)

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Ueli Maurer
Ueli Maurer (2010)
Born (1960-05-26) 26 May 1960 (age 64)
Awards
Academic background
Alma materSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
ThesisProvable Security in Cryptography (1990)
Doctoral advisorJames Massey[1]
Academic work
DisciplineCryptography
InstitutionsSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Doctoral students
Websitewww.crypto.ethz.ch/~maurer/

Ueli Maurer (born 26 May 1960[2]) is a professor of cryptography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

Education

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Maurer studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD in 1990,[2] advised by James Massey.[3] He joined Princeton University as a postdoc from 1990 to 1991.[2]

Career

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In a seminal work, he showed that the Diffie-Hellman problem is (under certain conditions) equivalent to solving the discrete log problem.[4]

From 2002 until 2008, Maurer also served on the board of Tamedia AG.[5]

Maurer was appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology in 2002[6] for a three-year term.[7] He was reappointed to a second three-year term as editor-in-chief of the same journal from 2005.[8]

In 2008, Maurer was named a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research "for fundamental contributions to information-theoretic cryptography, service to the IACR, and sustained educational leadership in cryptology."[9] In 2015, he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to cryptography and information security."[10] In 2016, he was awarded the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics.[11]

Accolades

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References

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  1. ^ Ueli Maurer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b c "Maurer, Ueli, Prof. Dr. | ETH Zurich". qc.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
  3. ^ Maurer, Ueli (1990). Provable security in cryptography (Doctoral Thesis thesis). ETH Zurich.
  4. ^ Ueli Maurer: Towards the equivalence of breaking the Diffie-Hellman protocol and computing discrete logarithms. In: Advances in Cryptology – Crypto '94. Springer-Verlag, 1994, S. 271−281.
  5. ^ Tamedia AG Medienmitteilung 23. April 2008: Jahresabschluss 2007 Archived 2012-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Ueli Maurer appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology". www.iacr.org. Archived from the original on 27 April 2002. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2001". www.iacr.org. 19 August 2001. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  8. ^ "Board of Directors Meeting Crypto 2004". www.iacr.org. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  9. ^ "Ueli Maurer, IACR Fellow". www.iacr.org.
  10. ^ ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, 2015, archived from the original on 2015-12-09, retrieved 2015-12-09.
  11. ^ "RSA® Conference 2016 Announces Recipients of Annual Awards; Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Art Coviello, Jr". www.businesswire.com. 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
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