Moti Yung
Yung's work helped articulate how cryptographic techniques can be used offensively as well as defensively, a perspective important to malware and ransomware history.
Moti Yung is a computer scientist and cryptographer whose work spans cryptography, security, privacy, and distributed systems. He has held academic and industrial research roles, including affiliations with Columbia University and Google.
Cryptovirology
With Adam Young, Yung developed research describing how public-key cryptography can support malicious goals such as extortion while limiting the victim's ability to recover secrets. Their work is historically relevant to later ransomware discussions.
Defensive value
Studying such misuse is defensive research: it helps engineers recognize design choices and operational controls needed to resist cryptographically enabled attacks.
Timeline
- 1988Completes a Ph.D. in computer science at Columbia University.
- 1996Co-authors an early cryptovirology paper with Adam Young.
- 2004Co-authors the book Malicious Cryptography.
- 2022Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Moti Yung
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1980s-Present
- Known for
- Cryptovirology; Malicious Cryptography; Distributed cryptography; Security protocols
- Tags
- cryptography, cryptovirology, malware-research, academic-research
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