Moni Naor
Israeli computer scientist (born 1961) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Moni Naor (Hebrew: מוני נאור) is an Israeli computer scientist, currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Naor received his Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of California, Berkeley. His advisor was Manuel Blum.
Moni Naor | |
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Born | 1961 |
Citizenship | Israeli |
Alma mater | Technion University of California, Berkeley |
Awards | Gödel prize (2014) Paris Kanellakis Award (2016) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science, Cryptography |
Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
Doctoral advisor | Manuel Blum |
Doctoral students | Yehuda Lindell Omer Reingold Kobbi Nissim |
He works in various fields of computer science, mainly the foundations of cryptography. He is notable for initiating research on public key systems secure against chosen ciphertext attack and creating non-malleable cryptography, visual cryptography (with Adi Shamir), and suggesting various methods for verifying that users of a computer system are human (leading to the notion of CAPTCHA).[1] His research on Small-bias sample space, give a general framework for combining small k-wise independent spaces with small -biased spaces to obtain -almost k-wise independent spaces of small size.[2] In 1994 he was the first, with Amos Fiat, to formally study the problem of practical broadcast encryption.[3] Along with Benny Chor, Amos Fiat, and Benny Pinkas, he made a contribution to the development of Traitor tracing, a copyright infringement detection system which works by tracing the source of leaked files rather than by direct copy protection.[4]