Mihir Bellare is a cryptographer and professor at the
University of California San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is th ...
. He has published several seminal papers in the field of
cryptography
Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...
(notably in the area of provable security), many of which were co-written with
Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School, and later earned a BA in computer science from UC Berkeley and completed his PhD in cryptography at MIT, in t ...
. Bellare has published a number of papers in the field of
Format-Preserving Encryption In cryptography, format-preserving encryption (FPE), refers to encrypting in such a way that the output (the ciphertext) is in the same format as the input (the plaintext). The meaning of "format" varies. Typically only finite sets of characters ar ...
. His students include Michel Abdalla, Chanathip Namprempre, Tadayoshi Kohno and Anton Mityagin. Bellare is one of the authors of
skein.
In 2003 Bellare was a recipient of RSA's Sixth Annual Conference Award for outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics for his research in cryptography. In 2013 he became a
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2019 he was awarded
Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography for his outstanding contributions to the design and analysis of real-world cryptosystems, including the development of
random oracle model, modes of operation,
HMAC, and models for key exchange.
Bellare's papers cover topics including:
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HMAC
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Random oracle
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OAEP
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Probabilistic signature scheme
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Provable security
Provable security refers to any type or level of computer security that can be proved. It is used in different ways by different fields.
Usually, this refers to mathematical proofs, which are common in cryptography. In such a proof, the capabiliti ...
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Format-preserving encryption In cryptography, format-preserving encryption (FPE), refers to encrypting in such a way that the output (the ciphertext) is in the same format as the input (the plaintext). The meaning of "format" varies. Typically only finite sets of characters ar ...
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Mihir Bellare
Modern cryptographers
Public-key cryptographers
University of California, San Diego faculty
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
International Association for Cryptologic Research fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
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