Dan Boneh

Dan Boneh (born 1969 in Israel) is an Israeli- American computer scientist and cryptographer.

Boneh in 1996 received his doctorate at Princeton University Richard J. Lipton ( Studies in computational number theory with applications to cryptography ). He is a professor at Stanford University. He headed the Division of Applied Cryptography.

He works in the field of cryptology and computer security, and developed new systems for Internet Security ( tcpcrypt ) PwdHash for browsers and cryptographic watermarks. He dealt with cryptanalysis of public-key systems such as RSA, with the Decisional Diffie -Hellman problem and 1995 cryptanalysis with DNA computers ( Lipton ).

By Matthew K. Franklin 2001, he developed identity-based encryption mechanisms based on Weil pairing for elliptic curve cryptography (Franklin- Boneh method).

In 2003 he published with David Brumley a timing attack on OpenSSL and later to other web applications.

In 2009 he was awarded the Gödel Prize with Franklin for Identity based encryption from the Weil pairing. He was Packard and Sloan Fellow. He is co-founder of Voltage Security.