Phillip Rogaway
Rogaway's research treats cryptography as both a mathematical discipline and a public-interest technology, linking protocol design to the social effects of surveillance and security decisions.
Phillip Rogaway is a cryptographer who taught at the University of California, Davis from 1994 until his retirement in 2024. His research has focused on rigorous, practical solutions for confidentiality, authentication, and privacy.
Applied cryptography
Rogaway co-developed important schemes and analyses for authenticated encryption and public-key encryption. His work illustrates why encryption alone is not enough: protocols also need integrity and carefully stated adversary models.
Ethics and security
He has also written and spoken about the ethical responsibility of cryptographers, especially where technical choices enable mass surveillance or concentrate power.
Timeline
- 1991Completes a Ph.D. at MIT under Silvio Micali.
- 1994Joins UC Davis.
- 2009Receives the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award.
- 2024Retires from UC Davis as professor emeritus.
Phillip Rogaway
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1990s-Present
- Known for
- Authenticated encryption; OCB mode; OAEP; Cryptography and technology ethics
- Tags
- cryptography, applied-cryptography, privacy, academic-research, technology-ethics
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