Residence United States Education Stanford University Alma mater Stanford University Fields Cryptography | Name Paul Kocher Role Cryptographer | |
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Born June 11, 1973 (age 50)
New York ( 1973-06-11 ) Institutions Cryptography Research, Inc. Known for SSL v3.0, differential power analysis, timing attacks, brute force hardware, tamper-resistant hardware design | ||
Organizations founded Cryptography Research | ||
“Battling Minds: Creativity and Computer Security” | Paul Kocher | TEDxSausalito
Paul Carl Kocher (born June 11, 1973) is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president and chief scientist of Cryptography Research, Inc.
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Among his most significant achievements are the development of timing attacks that can break implementations of RSA, DSA and fixed-exponent Diffie–Hellman that operate in non-constant time, as well as the co-development of power analysis and differential power analysis. He also contributed to the design of Deep Crack, a DES brute-force key search machine. He was one of the architects of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 protocol, a cryptographic protocol for secure communications on the Internet.
Kocher grew up in Oregon. He received a bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University in 1991, where he worked part-time with Martin Hellman.
Kocher was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for his contributions to cryptography and Internet security.