Chris Hall (cryptographer)

{{short description|American cryptographer and mathematician}}

Christopher Hall is an American cryptographer and mathematician, specializing in arithmetic geometry. He is one of the creators of the cryptosystem Twofish.{{cite web|url=http://www.schneier.com/twofish.html|title=Twofish|last=Schneier|first=Bruce|accessdate=23 January 2010}} He obtained a BS from the University of Colorado-Boulder Department of Computer Science and a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2003, under Nick Katz.{{mathgenealogy|name=Chris Hall|id=71612}}.

He is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Western Ontario.{{cite web|url=https://www.uwo.ca/math/faculty/index.html|title=Faculty|publisher=University of Western Ontario Mathematics Department|accessdate=2020-12-09}}