Matthew Keith "Matt" Franklin is an American cryptographer, and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.
Education and employment
Franklin did his undergraduate studies at Pomona College, graduating in 1983 with a degree in mathematics, and was awarded a masters degree in mathematics in 1985 by the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University in 1994, under the joint supervision of Zvi Galil and Moti Yung. Prior to joining the UC Davis faculty in 2000, he worked at Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs.
From 2009 to 2014, Franklin was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology.
Franklin is particularly known for the Boneh–Franklin scheme, a cryptography scheme he developed with Dan Boneh that uses the mathematics of elliptic curves to automatically generate public and private key pairs based on the identities of the communicating parties. In 2013, he and Boneh were winners of the Godel Prize for their work on this system.
Franklin, Matthew K.; Reiter, Michael K. (1996), "The Design and Implementation of a Secure Auction Service", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 22 (5): 302–312, doi:10.1109/32.502223 .
Cramer, Ronald; Franklin, Matthew; Schoenmakers, Berry; Yung, Moti (1996), "Multi-authority secret-ballot elections with linear work", Advances in cryptology—EUROCRYPT '96: International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques Saragossa, Spain, May 12–16, 1996, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1070, Berlin: Springer, pp. 72–83, doi:10.1007/3-540-68339-9_7, MR 1421580 .
Franklin, Matthew K.; Reiter, Michael K. (1997), "Fair exchange with a semi-trusted third party", Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '97), pp. 1–5, doi:10.1145/266420.266424 .
Boneh, Dan; Franklin, Matthew (1999), "An efficient public key traitor tracing scheme", Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO’ 99: 19th Annual International Cryptology Conference Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 15–19, 1999, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1666, Springer, pp. 338–353, doi:10.1007/3-540-48405-1_22 .
Boneh, Dan; Franklin, Matthew (2001), "Efficient generation of shared RSA keys", Journal of the ACM 48 (4): 702–722, doi:10.1145/502090.502094, MR 2144927 .
Boneh, Dan; Franklin, Matthew (2003), "Identity-based encryption from the Weil pairing", SIAM Journal on Computing 32 (3): 586–615, doi:10.1137/S0097539701398521, MR 2001745 .
