Stephen Pohlig

Stephen Pohlig is an electrical engineer currently working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. As a graduate student of Martin Hellman's at Stanford University in the mid-1970's, he helped develop the Pohlig–Hellman exponentiation cipher and the Pohlig–Hellman algorithm for computing discrete logarithms.

Bibliography

• S. Pohlig and M. Hellman, "An improved algorithm for computing logarithms over GF(p)and its cryptographic significance (Corresp.)," Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on 24, no. 1 (1978): 106-110.

• Martin E. Hellman and Stephen C. Pohlig, "United States Patent: 4424414 - Exponentiation cryptographic apparatus and method," January 3, 1984.

References

• Oral history interview with Martin Hellman, 2004, Palo Alto, California. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.