Ian Goldberg

Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner),[1] and for his role as chief scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero Knowledge Systems), a Canadian software company. Goldberg is currently a professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, within the University of Waterloo. He was formerly Tor Project board of directors chairman,[2] and is one of the designers of off the record messaging.[3]

For the television writer, see Ian B. Goldberg.
Ian Avrum Goldberg
Born (1973-03-31) March 31, 1973
Alma mater
Known forOff-the-Record Messaging
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Thesis"A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet" (2000)
Doctoral advisorEric Brewer
Websitewww.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/

Education

He attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools, graduating in 1991. In 1995, he received a B.Math from the University of Waterloo in pure mathematics and computer science. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in December 2000. His thesis was entitled A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet.[4] His advisor was Eric Brewer.

Accomplishments

As a high school student, Goldberg was a member of Canada's team to the International Math Olympiad from 1989 to 1991, where he received a bronze, silver, and gold medal respectively.[5] He was also a member of University of Waterloo team that won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 1994.[6] In 1998, Wired Magazine chose him as a member of the "Wired 25".[7] In 2011 he won the EFF Pioneer Award.[8]

Work in cryptography

In 1995, Goldberg with David Wagner discovered a flaw in the random number generator used for temporary key generation in the SSL implementation of Netscape Navigator.[1][9]

One of the first cryptanalyses on the WEP wireless encryption protocol was conducted by Goldberg with Nikita Borisov and David Wagner, revealing serious flaws in its design.[10][11]

Goldberg was a co-author of the Off-the-Record instant messaging encryption protocol. He is also the author of the Perl script included in the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.[12]

In 2009 Goldberg was co-author of the Sphinx Mix Format [13] which is nowadays implemented with the extension of a per hop payload to increase the privacy of payer and payee while routing Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network.[14]

See also

Notes and references
  1. Ian Goldberg (1995-09-18). "Netscape SSL implementation cracked!". Newsgroup: hks.lists.cypherpunks. Retrieved 2006-09-12.
  2. "Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board". Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  3. "Tor Project Board of Directors". Tor Project. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  4. "Wayback Machine" (PDF). 30 October 2001.
  5. "International Mathematical Olympiad: Hall of fame".
  6. "1993-94 18th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Final Report". 2002-04-01. Archived from the original on 2011-01-02.
  7. "The Wired 25". Wired. 6 (11). November 1998. Retrieved 2006-10-30.
  8. "EFF Celebrates the 2011 Pioneer Award Winners". Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  9. "The Cypherpunks Who Cracked Netscape". people.eecs.berkeley.edu.
  10. Nikita Borisov; Ian Goldberg; David Wagner (2001). "Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11" (PDF). Retrieved 2006-09-12. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. "(In)Security of the WEP algorithm". www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu.
  12. Neal Stephenson (1999). Cryptonomicon. New York: Avon Books. p. Acknowledgements. ISBN 978-0-380-97346-0.
  13. "Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format" (PDF). cypherpunks.ca/~iang/.
  14. "Basics Of Lightning Technology #4: Onion Routing Protocol". www.github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc.
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