Ueli Maurer (cryptographer)

Ueli Maurer (born 26 May 1960[2]) is a professor of cryptography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

Ueli Maurer
Ueli Maurer (2010)
Born (1960-05-26) 26 May 1960
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Awards
Academic background
Alma materSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
ThesisProvable Security in Cryptography (1990)
Doctoral advisorJames Massey[1]
Academic work
DisciplineCryptography
InstitutionsSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Doctoral students
Websitewww.crypto.ethz.ch/~maurer/

Education

Maurer studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD in 1990,[2] advised by James Massey.[3] He joined Princeton University as a postdoc from 1990 to 1991.[2]

Career

In a seminal work, he showed that the Diffie-Hellman problem is (under certain conditions) equivalent to solving the discrete log problem.[4]

From 2002 until 2008, Maurer also served on the board of Tamedia AG.[5]

Maurer was appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology in 2002[6] for a three-year term.[7] He was reappointed to a second three-year term as editor-in-chief of the same journal from 2005.[8]

In 2008, Maurer was named a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research "for fundamental contributions to information-theoretic cryptography, service to the IACR, and sustained educational leadership in cryptology."[9] In 2015, he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to cryptography and information security."[10] In 2016, he was awarded the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics.[11]

Accolades

References
  1. Ueli Maurer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Maurer, Ueli, Prof. Dr. | ETH Zurich". qc.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
  3. Maurer, Ueli (1990). Provable security in cryptography (Doctoral Thesis thesis). ETH Zurich.
  4. Ueli Maurer: Towards the equivalence of breaking the Diffie-Hellman protocol and computing discrete logarithms. In: Advances in Cryptology – Crypto '94. Springer-Verlag, 1994, S. 271−281.
  5. Tamedia AG Medienmitteilung 23. April 2008: Jahresabschluss 2007 Archived 2012-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Ueli Maurer appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology". www.iacr.org. Archived from the original on 27 April 2002. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  7. "Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2001". www.iacr.org. 19 August 2001. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  8. "Board of Directors Meeting Crypto 2004". www.iacr.org. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  9. "Ueli Maurer, IACR Fellow". www.iacr.org.
  10. ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, 2015, archived from the original on 2015-12-09, retrieved 2015-12-09.
  11. "RSA® Conference 2016 Announces Recipients of Annual Awards; Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Art Coviello, Jr". www.businesswire.com. 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
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