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Wikipedia: List of cryptographers
List of cryptographers
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List of notable cryptographers (with home pages if available):

Pre-20th century

Pre-Computer

  • Charles Babbage, UK, 19th century mathematician who, about the time of the Crimean War, secretly developed an attack against polyalphabetic substitution cyphers. His development was published independently some decades later by Kasiski, a Prussian officer. Babbage also designed, and had partially built, the first programmable digital computer, the Analytical Engine. He first designed and had partially built the Difference engine for reduced errors in the preparation of mathematical tables -- spcefically including navigational tables, thus accounting for the interest of the British Government in the project.
  • Alistair Denniston, UK, director of GC&CS during WWII.
  • Nigel de Grey, UK, member of the Room 40 British codebreaking team who played an important role in the decryption of the Zimmermann Telegram during WWI
  • Elizebeth Friedman, US.
  • William F. Friedman, US, introduced statistical methods into cryptology, can claim title of founder of modern cryptography
  • Dilwyn Knox, UK, Classics scholar and eccentric; WWI Room 40 member who stayed with crypto between the Wars, becoming the chief cryptanalyst of the GC&CS before WWII. Broke commercial Enigma. Famous for solving problems in the bath.
  • Leo Marks, UK, World War II cryptographer and SOE crypto director
  • Frank Rowlett, US.
  • Claude Elwood Shannon, US, founded the modern theory of cryptography (ca WWII), proved the one-time pad to be unbreakable, founded and invented/developed information theory and major aspects of communication theory, One of the principal developers of the theory of Error Correction Schemes (with Richard Hamming)
  • Laurence Safford, US.
  • John Tiltman, UK, British Army officer from Scotland, talented cryptographer. Contributed significantly before WWII in the era of hand cryptanalysis and during/after WWII in the era of machine assisted cryptanalysis. Worked at Bletchley Park and GCHQ.
  • Alan Turing, UK, one of the most original minds of the 20th century and one the chief cryptographers at Bletchley Park during World War II. Made major contributions to the theory of computation, and can even be regarded as its originator.
  • Gordon Welchman, UK, Turing's associate in the Naval Enigma Hut at Bletchley Park during WWII. Made major contributions to its cryptanalysis.
  • Herbert Yardley, US, best known for his book "The American Black Chamber.

Modern

Here is a list of links to cryptographers' home pages: http://www.swcp.com/~mccurley/cryptographers/cryptographers.html This link should stay here only until we make a good enough list, (but some such should perhaps stay as a link anyway?).

See also: cryptography


  

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