Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner),^[1] and for his role as Chief Scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero-Knowledge Systems), a Canadian software company. Beginning with the fall 2006 academic term, Goldberg is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.

Contents 1 Education 2 Accomplishments 3 Work in cryptography 4 See also 5 Notes and references 6 External links

[edit] Education

He attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools, graduating in 1991. In 1995, he received a B.Math from the University of Waterloo in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in December 2000. His thesis was entitled A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet. His advisor was Eric Brewer.

[edit] Accomplishments

As a high school student, Goldberg was a member of Canada's team to the International Math Olympiad from 1989 to 1991, where he received a bronze, silver, and gold medal respectively. He was also a member of University of Waterloo team that won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 1994. In 1998, Wired Magazine chose him as a member of the "Wired 25".^[2]

[edit] Work in cryptography

In 1995, Ian Goldberg with David Wagner discovered a flaw in the random number generator used for temporary key generation in the SSL implementation of Netscape Navigator.^[1]

One of the first cryptanalyses on the WEP wireless encryption protocol was conducted by Goldberg with Nikita Borisov and David Wagner, revealing serious flaws in its design.^[3]

Goldberg was a co-author of the Off-the-Record instant messaging encryption protocol. He is also the author of the Perl script given in Cryptonomicon, a novel by Neal Stephenson^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] See also

• Data privacy
• Information privacy

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

• Ian Goldberg's personal website
• Ian Goldberg at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science