Claus P. Schnorr
Claus -Peter Schnorr (* August 4, 1943 in Völklingen in Saarbrücken ) is a German mathematician and computer scientist.
Life
Schnorr studied from 1962 to 1966 at the University of Saarbrücken mathematics and physics. His thesis is entitled investigations of Context Free Languages by algebraic point of view. Claus -Peter Schnorr received his doctorate in 1967 at the Department of Günter Hotz Dr. rer. nat., the dissertation is titled representability of languages by free associative systems. He habilitated in 1970 in mathematics. The work of randomness and probability are an algorithmic justification of probability theory.
Schnorr 1970 Lecturer in Saarbrücken, in 1971 associate professor at the University of Erlangen and a year later he became a professor at the Department of Mathematics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He was since 1986 also professor at the department of computer science (Chair Mathematical computer science ) in Frankfurt, both departments were merged later. Schnorr is after 40 years emeritus at the University of Frankfurt in 2011. He is married and has 3 children.
In the 1970s, Schnorr conducted research mainly in the field of complexity theory. In the 1980s he focused on algorithmic aspects of the lattice basis reduction and recognized early the importance of cryptography. He participated in the EUROCRYPT conference at Burg Feuerstein 1982 and is now considered one of the most famous German cryptographers. He developed an identification scheme based on the discrete logarithm (1989 /91), whose signatures variant ( " Schnorr signature" ) is used today worldwide. The process is patented by Schnorr and exclusively licensed to RSA (Siemens but has a non-exclusive license). Schnorr threw in the IEEE P1363 standardization before the NIST, with the model developed by this method signature Digital Signature Algorithm, DSA short of violating its patent.
He is a "Distinguished Associate" RSA Laboratories. He is a guest lecturer at universities known (Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, ENS Paris, University of Chicago). 1993 records the German Research Foundation from its performance with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize ( together with Johannes Buchmann ).