Neal Koblitz

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Neal Koblitz
Born (1948-12-24) December 24, 1948 (age 75)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
University of Waterloo
Doctoral advisorNick Katz
Doctoral studentsDaqing Wan

Neal I. Koblitz (born December 24, 1948)

elliptic curve cryptography
.

Biography

Koblitz received his

Putnam Fellow in 1968.[2] He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 under the direction of Nick Katz. From 1975 to 1979 he was an instructor at Harvard University.[3]
In 1979 he began working at the University of Washington.

Koblitz's 1981 article "Mathematics as Propaganda"

National Academy of Sciences.[5] In The Mathematical Intelligencer, Koblitz,[6][7][8] Steven Weintraub,[9] and Saunders Mac Lane later criticized the arguments of Herbert A. Simon, who had attempted to defend Huntington's work.[10]

He co-invented elliptic-curve cryptography in 1985[11] with Victor S. Miller, and for this was awarded the Levchin Prize[12] in 2021.

With his wife

atheist.[15]

Koblitz's 2007 article "The uneasy relationship between mathematics and cryptography" discusses the increased contact between mathematics and cryptography in the 1990s. He argues that there is an unjustified "aura" placed onto mathematical proofs in cryptographic competitions and received much ire for the view.[16] Koblitz, in co-operation with Alfred Menezes, went on to write a series of Another Look papers that describe errors or weaknesses in existing security proofs, the first being Another look at HMAC (2013). The two now maintain a website dedicated to this type of papers.[17]

In 2011, Koblitz published "Elliptic curve cryptography: The serpentine course of a paradigm shift" with Ann Hibner Koblitz and Alfred Menezes. Using the history of ECC and shifting attitudes in the cryptographic community, the article argues that the field of cryptography is not as scientific and meritocratic as cryptographers want to show to the outside world; the field is

controlled by social factors, especially path dependence.[18]

See also

Selected publications

  • — (1984) [1977]. p-adic Numbers, p-adic Analysis, and Zeta-Functions.
    ISBN 978-1-4612-1112-9
    .
  • — (1980). p-adic Analysis: a Short Course on Recent Work. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series. Vol. 46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    ISBN 9780521280600
    . Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  • — (1993) [1984]. Introduction to Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms.
    ISBN 978-1-4612-0909-6
    .
  • — (1994) [1987]. A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography.
    ISBN 978-1-4419-8592-7
    .
  • — (1998). Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography. Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics. Vol. 3. New York:
    ISBN 978-3-662-03642-6
    .
  • — (2008). Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician. Springer-Verlag.
    ISBN 978-3540740773
    .

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-3-540-66913-5
  2. ^ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  3. ^ Koblitz, Neal (2007), Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician, Springer-Verlag, p. 123
  4. ISBN 0-387-90564-2
  5. ISBN 0-88385-554-2
  6. S2CID 121312716
  7. S2CID 123030288
  8. doi:10.1007/bf03028350
  9. S2CID 189883909
  10. ISBN 0-415-12275-9
  11. JSTOR 2007884
    .
  12. ^ Levchin Prize
  13. ^ Hickey, Hannah (2007-11-08), Neal Koblitz: Deciphering the cryptographer, University Week
  14. ^ Nguyen, Ha (March 13, 2012), "Women make their mark in sciences", Việt Nam News.
  15. ^ Koblitz, Neal. Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2008. Print. "For me, an atheist and an aspiring mathematician..."
  16. ^ Koblitz, Neal (2007). "The uneasy relationship between mathematics and cryptography". Notices of the AMS. 54: 972–979.
  17. ^ Neal, Koblitz; Alfred, Menezes. "Another Look at Provable Security". www.math.uwaterloo.ca.
  18. doi:10.1016/j.jnt.2009.01.006
    .

External links
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