Computer Security and Cryptography

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

After completing graduate study in 1960, I became a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, New York). During my 22 years in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at IBM, I researched the applications of mathematics in computer science problems.

Starting in the mid-1960s, I became the Manager of the Mathematical Sciences' cryptography program; in particular, the evaluation of the Data Encryption Standard (DES).

Yearning for the sun, along with my wife Carol, I left IBM Research in 1982 and accepted a position as a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California (Santa Barbara). In my 24 years at UCSB, I taught courses in Assembly Language, Performance Evaluation, Computer Networks and Cryptography. I developed CMPSC 178 (Introduction to Cryptography) and offered this course 21 times at UCSB and three times at the Technion (Haifa, Israel), LaTrobe University (Melbourne, Australia) and at the University of Hawaii (Honolulu).

I retired from UCSB on July 1, 2005 to pursue a life of indolence.

Cryptography: A Primer was published by John Wiley & Sons Inc., in 1981. It might yet be made into a movie.

I spent the summer of 1984 at the National Security Agency (Fort George G. Meade, Maryland), the following three summers at Communications Research Division at the Institute for Defense Analysis (Princeton, ...