Ueli Maurer (born 26 May 1960) is a professor 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 ...

at the

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(ETH Zurich).

Education

Maurer studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD in 1990, advised by

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. He joined

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as a postdoc from 1990 to 1991.

Career

In a seminal work, he showed that the Diffie-Hellman problem is (under certain conditions)

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to solving the

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problem.Ueli Maurer: ''Towards the equivalence of breaking the Diffie-Hellman protocol and computing discrete logarithms.'' In: ''Advances in Cryptology - Crypto '94.'' Springer-Verlag, 1994, S. 271−281. From 2002 until 2008, Maurer also served on the board of Tamedia AG.Tamedia AG Medienmitteilung 23. April 2008: Jahresabschluss 2007
Maurer was appointed editor-in-chief of the

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in 2002 for a three-year term. He was reappointed to a second three-year term as editor-in-chief of the same journal from 2005. In 2008, Maurer was named a Fellow of the

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"for fundamental contributions to information-theoretic cryptography, service to the IACR, and sustained educational leadership in cryptology." In 2015, he was named a

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"for contributions to cryptography and information security." In 2016, he was awarded the

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Accolades

* 2016:

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(RSA) Award for Excellence in Mathematics * 2015: Fellow of the

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(ACM) * 2008: Fellow of the

(IACR) * 2007: Member of the

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* 2003: Fellow of the

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References

External links

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Website of Ueli Maurer
at ETH Zurich {{DEFAULTSORT:Maurer, Ueli 1960 births Living people Swiss cryptographers International Association for Cryptologic Research fellows Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Academic staff of ETH Zurich