Orr Dunkelman (Hebrew: אור דונקלמן) is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the University of Haifa Computer Science department.[1] Dunkelman is a co-director of the Center for Cyber Law & Privacy at the University of Haifa and a co-founder of Privacy Israel, an Israeli NGO for promoting privacy in Israel.[1][2]
Orr Dunkelman | |
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אור דונקלמן | |
Born | 1980 |
Alma mater | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Known for | Studies in cryptography and cryptanalysis (invention and breaking of encryption functions) |
Awards | Krill Prize (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science, cryptography, cryptanalysis |
Institutions | University of Haifa |
Doctoral advisor | Eli Biham |
Dunkelman received all his degrees at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree at the age of 25, under the supervision of Eli Biham.[3] Before joining the University of Haifa, Dunkelman held post-doctoral positions at KU Leuven, at École normale supérieure, and at the Weizmann Institute of Science.[1]
Among his contributions to cryptanalysis are:
Dunkelman has taken part in the design of several new cryptographic primitives:
Dunkelman received the Krill Prize from the Wolf Foundation in 2014, and papers he co-authored won the Best Paper Award at the Crypto conference (2012) and at the Fast Software Encryption (FSE) conference (2012).[12][4]