Gustavus Simmons

Gustavus James Simmons (born 27 October 1930 in West Virginia) is an American applied mathematician and cryptographer.

Life and work

Gustavus Simmons studied at Deep Springs College in California and received his doctorate at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He was head of the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics at Sandia National Laboratories as a cryptographer. Simmons mainly dealt with the problem of authentication, with applications to the mutual control of the testing of nuclear weapons in the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ( Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ). For this he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 1986.

In the 1980s, he was one of the pioneers of the implementation of factorization on parallel computers at Sandia Labs ( on a Cray X -MP vector computer ), where even the quadratic sieving method was implemented ( James Davis, Diane Holdridge, 1983).

He was one of the founders of the International Association of Crypto Logical Research ( IACR ), whose honorary fellow he is. In 1991 he became an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund.

Simmons also developed the game Sim, based on the graph theory.

Writings

Publisher: Contemporary Cryptology: The Science of Information Integrity. Wiley 1999, ISBN 0-7803-5352-8.

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