RSA Conference 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award: Taher Elgamal

RSA Conference 2009: Lifetime Achievement Award to Taher Elgamal. Lifetime Achievement Award
Taher Elgamal
Dr. Taher Elgamal is a tremendously successful and talented cryptographer turned entrepreneur. In 1985, Dr. Elgamal published a paper titled A Public key Cryptosystem and A Signature Scheme based on discrete Logarithms in which he proposed the design of the ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem and of the ElGamal signature scheme. The latter scheme became the basis for Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) adopted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the Digital Signature Standard (DSS). The Elgamal Cryptosystem is used in many commercial products and is the foundation for modern elliptic-curve ciphers. He also participated in the 'SET' credit card payment protocol, plus a number of Internet payment schemes. Elgamal served as chief scientist at Netscape Communications from 1995 to 1998 where he was a driving force behind SSL. Recognized as the inventor of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, Dr. Elgamal wrote the patents and promoted SSL as the Internet security standard.

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[malekchek]

He's really good

better than Diffie-Hellman