Yuliang Zheng is the Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the

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. He is best known for inventing the

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cryptographic primitive that combines the digital signature and encryption operations into one single step. He also invented the

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hash function, SPEED cipher, and STRANDOM pseudo-random number generator. Zheng serves as Chief Technology Officer of Calyptix Security Corporation, a company he co-founded in 2002.

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Homepage of Yuliang Zheng
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