Ivan Bjerre Damgård
Damgård's work helped shape core cryptographic constructions and secure multi-party computation, making him a key academic contributor to modern protocol theory.
Ivan Bjerre Damgård is a professor at Aarhus University and heads its cryptography group. His research includes theoretical and applied cryptography and secure computation.
From hashing to protocols
The Merkle–Damgård construction is a standard way to extend a fixed-input-length compression function into a hash function. Damgård has also made major contributions to protocols for computing jointly on protected data.
Security by construction
His work illustrates how formal cryptographic definitions and proofs can guide the design of systems that must preserve secrecy or correctness even when participants do not fully trust one another.
Timeline
- 1988Completes doctoral work on multiparty unconditionally secure protocols.
- 1989Publishes the Merkle–Damgård hash-function construction.
- 2010Named an IACR Fellow.
- PresentLeads the cryptography group at Aarhus University.
Ivan Bjerre Damgård
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1980s-Present
- Known for
- Merkle–Damgård construction; Secure multi-party computation; Cryptography
- Tags
- cryptography, secure-computation, hash-functions, multiparty-computation
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