Ian Goldberg

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Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner),<ref name="netscape-ssl-cracked"> Template:Cite newsgroup</ref> and for his role as chief scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero Knowledge Systems), a Canadian software company. Goldberg is currently a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science within the University of Waterloo, and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> He was formerly Tor Project board of directors chairman,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and is one of the designers of off the record messaging.<ref name="Tor Project Board of Directors">Template:Cite web</ref>

Education

Goldberg attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools, graduating in 1991. In 1995, he received a B.Math from the University of Waterloo in pure mathematics and computer science. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in December 2000. His thesis was entitled A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His advisor was Eric Brewer.

Accomplishments

As a high school student, Goldberg was a member of Canada's team to the International Math Olympiad from 1989 to 1991, where he received a bronze, silver, and gold medal respectively.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was also a member of University of Waterloo team that won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 1994.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1998, Wired Magazine chose him as a member of the "Wired 25".<ref name="wired-25"> Template:Cite magazine</ref> In 2011 he won the EFF Pioneer Award.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2019, he won the USENIX Security Test of Time Award along with his colleagues David Wagner and Randi Thomas and former PhD supervisor Eric Brewer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2023, he was named an ACM Fellow.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Work in cryptography

In 1995, Goldberg with David Wagner discovered a flaw in the random number generator used for temporary key generation in the SSL implementation of Netscape Navigator.<ref name="netscape-ssl-cracked"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

One of the first cryptanalyses on the WEP wireless encryption protocol was conducted by Goldberg with Nikita Borisov and David Wagner, revealing serious flaws in its design.<ref name="wep-insecurity"> Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Goldberg was a co-author of the Off-the-Record instant messaging encryption protocol. He is also the author of the Perl script included in the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.<ref name="Cryptonomicon"> Template:Cite book</ref>

In 2009 Goldberg was co-author of the Sphinx Mix Format,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which is nowadays implemented with the extension of a per-hop payload to increase the privacy of both payer and payee while routing Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, was a research assistant of Goldberg while a student at the University of Waterloo.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Goldberg is a member of the Cryptography, Security and Privacy group as well as the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI). He has been collaborating with the CPI works on the development of a new interdisciplinary research and education program.<ref name=":0" />

See also

Notes and references

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  • University of Waterloo
  • UC Berkeley

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