Biography:Paul Syverson
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Short description: Computer scientist and mathematician at the US Naval Research Laboratory, inventor of onion routing
Paul Syverson | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Invention of onion routing |
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| Alma mater | Indiana University |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Center for High Assurance Computer Systems, US Naval Research Laboratory |
| Main interests | Traffic-secure communications |
Paul Syverson is a computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing, a feature of the Tor anonymity network.[1][2]
In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Syverson, and Tor's co-creators Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, among its Top 100 Global Thinkers "for making the web safe for whistleblowers".[3]
In 2014, Syverson was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[4][5]
References
- ↑ A Model of Onion Routing with Provable Anonymity. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-77366-5_9. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-77366-5_9. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ↑ "Almost Everyone Involved in Developing Tor was (or is) Funded by the US Government". Pando. 2014-07-16. https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/.
- ↑ Wittmeyer, Alicia P.Q. (26 November 2012). "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,48.
- ↑ McKinney, Donna (19 February 2015). "NRL's Paul Syverson Named Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery" (in en). https://www.nrl.navy.mil/news/releases/nrls-paul-syverson-named-fellow-association-computing-machinery.
- ↑ "Paul Syverson". Association for Computing Machinery. https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/syverson_5067587.
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