Citizenship Israeli Doctoral advisor Manuel Blum Role Computer scientist | Name Moni Naor Notable students Yehuda Lindell | |
Institutions Weizmann Institute of Science Alma mater Technion
University of California, Berkeley Doctoral students Danny Harnik
Tzvika Hartman
Yehuda Lindell
Kobbi Nissim
Benny Pinkas
Omer Reingold
Alon Rosen
Udi Wieder
Avishai Wool Education University of California, Berkeley Fields Computer Science, Cryptography Similar People Oded Goldreich, Manuel Blum, Yehuda Lindell | ||
Notable awards Godel prize (2014) |
Moni naor i core day 2015
Moni Naor (Hebrew: מוני נאור) is an Israeli computer scientist, currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Naor received his Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of California, Berkeley. His advisor was Manuel Blum.
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He works in various fields of computer science, mainly the foundations of cryptography. He is notable for initiating research on public key systems secure against chosen ciphertext attack and creating non-malleable cryptography, visual cryptography (with Adi Shamir), and suggesting various methods for verifying that users of a computer system are human (leading to the notion of CAPTCHA). His research on Small-bias sample space, give a general framework for combining small k-wise independent spaces with small