Ian Goldberg
Ian Avrum Goldberg | |
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| Born | March 31, 1973 |
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| Known for | Off-the-Record Messaging |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of Waterloo |
| Thesis | "A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet" (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Brewer |
| Website | www |
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), 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. He was formerly Tor Project board of directors chairman, and is one of the designers of off the record messaging.