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'''Ian Avrum Goldberg''' (born March 31, 1973) is a [[cryptographer]] and [[cypherpunk]]. He is best known for breaking [[Netscape Communications Corporation|Netscape's]] implementation of [[Secure Sockets Layer|SSL]] (with [[David A. Wagner|David Wagner]]), and for his role as chief scientist of Radialpoint (formerly [[Zero Knowledge Systems]]), a Canadian software company. Goldberg is currently a professor at the [[David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science|School of Computer Science]], [[University of Waterloo]]. He was formerly the chairman of the board on the board of directors of the [[Tor (anonymity network)|Tor Project]], and is one of the designers of [[off the record messaging]].

==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 [[Doctor of Philosophy|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 (computer scientist)|Eric Brewer]].

==Accomplishments==
As a high school student, Goldberg was a member of Canada's team to the [[International Mathematical Olympiad|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".
In 2011 he won the [[EFF Pioneer Award]].

==Work in cryptography==
In 1995, Goldberg with [[David A. Wagner|David Wagner]] discovered a flaw in the [[random number generator]] used for temporary key generation in the SSL implementation of [[Netscape Navigator]].

Goldberg was a co-author of the [[Off-the-Record Messaging|Off-the-Record]] [[instant messaging]] encryption protocol. He is also the author of the [[Perl]] script included in the novel ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'' by [[Neal Stephenson]].

In 2009 Goldberg was co-author of the Sphinx Mix Format <ref>[https://cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/Sphinx_Oakland09.pdf Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format]</ref> which is nowadays implemented with the extension of a per hop payload to increase the privacy of payer and payee while routing [[Bitcoin]] payments through the [[Lightning Network]].<ref>[https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/04-onion-routing.md Basics Of Lightning Technology #4: Onion Routing Protocol]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Data privacy]]
* [[Information privacy]]

==Notes and references==

==External links==
*[http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/ Ian Goldberg's personal website]
*[http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~iang/ Ian Goldberg] at the [[David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science]]

==Source==

[http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.org/]

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