Victor Shoup
Victor Shoup is included for documented contributions to the technical and formal foundations of computer security and cryptography.
Victor Shoup is a professor at NYU Courant whose research covers cryptography, computational number theory, and algorithms. He also created NTL, a widely used open-source C++ library for number-theory computations.
Security relevance
Public-key cryptography depends heavily on reliable arithmetic over large integers and finite fields. Shoup’s research and software made these mathematical foundations more accessible to researchers and implementers.
Timeline
- 1989Receives a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- 1990sDevelops NTL, a number-theory library used in cryptographic research and implementation.
- 2001Publishes a graduate course text on applied cryptography.
- 2004Serves as editor for ISO 18033-2 on public-key encryption.
Victor Shoup
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1990s-Present
- Known for
- Number Theory Library (NTL); Cryptographic protocols; Applied cryptography education
- Tags
- cryptography, number-theory, algorithms, open-source-security-tools, academic-research
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