Yvo G. Desmedt

Yvo Desmedt in Wuyishan, China, 2007.

Yvo G. Desmedt (b. 1956) is the Chair of Information Communication Technology at University College London. He was a pioneer of threshold cryptography[1] and is an International Association for Cryptologic Research Fellow. He also made crucial observations that were used in the cryptanalysis of the Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem[2] and observed properties of the Data Encryption Standard which were used by Eli Biham and Adi Shamir when they invented Differential Cryptanalysis.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Yvo Desmedt, Society and Group Oriented Cryptography: a New Concept, Proceedings of CRYPTO 1987, pp. 120-127
  2. ↑ Y. G. Desmedt, J. P. Vandewalle and R. J. M. Govaerts, "A Critical Analysis of the Security of Knapsack Public Key Algorithms," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. IT-30, 1984, pp. 601-611.
  3. ↑ Yvo Desmedt, Jean-Jacques Quisquater, and Marc Davio, "Dependence of Output on Input in DES: Small Avalanche Characteristics", Proceedings of CRYPTO 1984, pp. 359--376.

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