Mihir Bellare

Mihir Bellare (born 1962 ) is a cryptographer and professor at the University of California, San Diego. Bellare has published mainly in the area of ​​provable security of cryptographic algorithms, often with Phillip Rogaway. Bellare is one of the co-authors of the hash algorithm Skein.

Bellare in 1991 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD at Silvio Micali ( Randomness in interactive proofs ). He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Bellare the 2003 Award of the sixth RSA Conference for outstanding achievement was awarded in the field of mathematics and cryptographic research. In 2009 he was awarded with Rogaway the Paris Kanellakis Award.

Work on provable security and RSA

Bellare has developed for the analysis of cryptographic hash functions with Rogaway method with the model of the random oracle. He has developed various padding Based on variants of the RSA cryptosystem, which are provably secure under certain assumptions. From him are:

• Full - Domain Hash ( FDH )
• Probabilistic Signature Scheme (PSS ) with Rogaway
• Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding ( OAEP ) with Rogaway

PSS and OAEP are now standardized as PKCS # 1 2.1.

Writings

• With Rogaway: Random oracles are practical: a paradigm for designing efficient protocols, First ACM Conference on Computer and communications security, 1993, pp. 62-73
• With Rogaway: Entity authentification and key distribution, Crypto 93, LNCS 773, Springer Verlag 1993, pp. 232-249
• With Rogaway: Optimal asymmetric encryption, Advances in Cryptology, Eurocrypt 1994, LNCS 950, 1994, pp. 92-111