Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

{{short description|American computer scientist (born 1973)}}

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|name = Craig Gentry

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|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}}

|discipline = Cryptography, computer science

|workplaces = IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Algorand Foundation

|education = Duke University (BS)
Harvard University (JD)
Stanford University (PhD)

|doctoral_advisor = Dan Boneh

|thesis_title = A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme{{MathGenealogy|144630}}

|thesis_year = 2009

|known_for = Fully-homomorphic encryption

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|awards =

• ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2009)
• MacArthur Fellowship (2014)
• Grace Murray Hopper Award (2010)
• Gödel Prize (2022)

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Craig Gentry (born 1973){{cite web |last=MacArthur Foundation |date=17 September 2014 |title=Craig Gentry |url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/914/ |access-date=12 March 2015 |publisher=MacArthur Foundation}} is an American computer scientist working as CTO of TripleBlind. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specifically fully homomorphic encryption.Craig Gentry. [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1536414.1536440 Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices]. In the 41st ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2009.{{Citation

| last = Greenberg | first = Andy

| title = Hacker Lexicon: What is Homomorphic Encryption?

| newspaper = Wired

| date = 3 November 2014

| url = https://www.wired.com/2014/11/hacker-lexicon-homomorphic-encryption/

| access-date = 26 October 2015 }}{{Citation

| last = Hayden | first = Erika

| title = Extreme cryptography paves way to personalized medicine

| newspaper = Nature

| date = 23 March 2015

| volume = 519

| issue = 7544

| pages = 400–1

| doi = 10.1038/519400a

| pmid = 25810184

| bibcode = 2015Natur.519..400C

| url = http://www.nature.com/news/extreme-cryptography-paves-way-to-personalized-medicine-1.17174

| access-date = 26 October 2015 | doi-access = free

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