Eli Biham

Eli Biham (Hebrew: אלי ביהם) is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst who is a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science department.From 2008 to 2013, Biham was the dean of the Technion Computer Science department, after serving for two years as chief of CS graduate school.Biham invented (publicly) differential cryptanalysis,[1] for which he received his Ph.D., while working under Adi Shamir.It had been invented before by a team at IBM during their Data Encryption Standard work; the National Security Agency told IBM to keep the discovery secret.[citation needed] Biham has taken part in the design of several new cryptographic primitives:
Tel Aviv UniversityWeizmann InstitutecryptographycryptanalysisEncryptionDifferential cryptanalysisComputer scienceTechnion – Israel Institute of TechnologyDoctoral advisorAdi ShamirHebrewcryptographercryptanalystTechnion - Israel Institute of TechnologyData Encryption StandardNational Security AgencyImpossible differential cryptanalysisAlex BiryukovLars Knudsenrelated-key attacksDifferential Fault Analysisslide attacksSerpentRoss Andersonblock cipherAdvanced Encryption Standardhash functionJennifer Seberrystream ciphersOrr DunkelmanNIST hash function competition