| Nikita Borisov | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Champaign, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor, UIUC |
| Known for | OTR |
| Website | |
| http://hatswitch.org/~nikita/ | |
Nikita Borisov is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His notable work includes one of the first cryptanalyses of the WEP wireless encryption protocol together with Ian Goldberg and David Wagner, and the design of the Off-the-Record Messaging protocol with Goldberg.[1]
Borisov received a B. Math in computer science and pure math in 1997 from the University of Waterloo. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and 2005, respectively.