Mihir Bellare
Bellare's work demonstrates how formal security models can guide deployable primitives, including message authentication and encryption schemes used in Internet-facing systems.
Mihir Bellare is a cryptographer and computer-science professor associated with the University of California San Diego. His research focuses on cryptographic definitions, constructions, and proofs with practical relevance.
From models to deployed primitives
Bellare co-developed HMAC and contributed to OAEP, connecting theoretical analysis with widely used authentication and public-key-encryption building blocks. His work on security models has also shaped the way protocol designers state and evaluate guarantees.
Historical significance
His career is a useful bridge between academic cryptography and systems that protect network traffic and electronic transactions.
Timeline
- 1991Completes a Ph.D. in computer science at MIT.
- 1995Joins UC San Diego's computer-science faculty.
- 1997Co-authors RFC 2104, HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication.
- 2013Named an ACM Fellow for contributions to provable security methods.
Mihir Bellare
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1990s-Present
- Known for
- Provable security; HMAC; OAEP; Random-oracle methodology
- Tags
- cryptography, provable-security, authentication, academic-research
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