Ueli Maurer (cryptographer)


Ueli Maurer is a professor of cryptography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.

Education

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

Career

In a seminal work, he showed that the Diffie-Hellman problem is equivalent to solving the discrete log problem.
From 2002 until 2008, Maurer also served on the board of Tamedia AG.
Maurer was appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology in 2002 for a three-year term. He was reappointed to a second three-year term as editor-in-chief of the same journal from 2005.
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." In 2015, he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to cryptography and information security." In 2016, he was awarded the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics.

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