Cryptomathic
{{Short description|Cryptography company}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox company
| name = CRYPTOMAThIC
| logo = Logo cryptomathic.png
| type = Limited liability company
| foundation = 1986
| location = Aarhus, Denmark
| key_people = Peter Landrock,
Founder and executive chairman
| num_employees = ~ 100 (2023)
| products = Public key infrastructure Software Suite; advanced key management system; Strong authentication solution; data preparation software and management of cryptographic resources
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.cryptomathic.com/}}
}}
Cryptomathic is a software company specializing in the area of cryptography for e-commerce security systems. The company develops secure software for the financial and governmental industries. It focuses especially on developing back-end solutions using hardware security modules.{{cite web |url=http://www.cryptomathic.com/company/about-us |title=Cryptomathic About us |date=27 March 2015 |access-date=27 March 2015}}
Cryptomathic has its headquarters in Aarhus, Denmark. The company was founded in 1986, by three professors from University of Aarhus, among them Peter Landrock and Ivan Damgård. It now operates world-wide with offices in London, UK; Munich, Germany and San Jose, California, US{{cite web |url=http://www.cryptomathic.com/contact/cryptomathic-offices |title=Cryptomathic Contact |date=27 March 2015 |access-date=27 March 2015}}
Cryptomathic has collaborated in research projects with the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences to develop Cryptomathic's systems for securing messaging between hardware security modules (HSMs). With Bristol University, Cryptomathic conducted research on authenticated encryption between HSMs.{{cite journal |author1=A. Beckmann |author2=S. B. Cooper |author3=B. Löwe |author4=E. Mayordomo |title= Semantics and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing |url= https://www.newton.ac.uk/files/reports/scientific/sas.pdf |journal=Scientific Report, Isaac Newton Institute|date=2012}}
Awards and recognition
In 2002, Cryptomathic's chief cryptographer Vincent Rijmen{{cite web|url=http://www.cryptomathic.com/company/management-team | title=Cryptomathic Management Team | access-date=2013-04-05}} was named one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review TR100.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2002 |title=2002 Young Innovators Under 35 |magazine=Technology Review | year=2002 | access-date=2012-12-16}}
In 2003, Cryptomathic was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, based on its innovative product for mobile electronic signatures.{{cite web|last=Apax Partners|first=Deloitte Touche Tomatsu|title=The impact of innovation|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:8ZBpaD2ab0wJ:www.apax.com/APAX_TECH_PIONEERS_2003.pdf+cryptomathic+%22technology+pioneer%22&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjjtWAGnU-Kto1VTVyPQoIKd6ljmf-Jm1Im5vhGXldZmIjQfWV153ag9Bht8Q9E4JZf3oUgazjpPJ-ZW28dtaLpQLMgF1kFmK7l1meIHRbiUDXLzsoWZcTtpWhuxmJJQNwhJNn7&sig=AHIEtbRIVa8grWZrply8k9r8xvIsLFehSQ&pli=1|work=World Economic Forum - Technology Pioneers programme|publisher=Apax Partners|access-date=8 July 2011}} The term "What You See Is What You Sign" (WYSIWYS) was coined in 1998 by Peter Landrock and Torben Pedersen of Cryptomathic during their work on delivering secure and legally binding digital signatures for Pan-European projects.P. Landrock, T. Pedersen, "WYSIWYS? -- What you see is what you sign?". Information Security Technical Report, Volume 3, Number 2, 1998, pp. 55–61 In 2004, Cryptomathic received the Visa Smart Star Award for it contributions to the field of EMV and Chip and PIN based on its data preparation offering.{{cite news|title=Cryptomathic Awarded Visa Smart Star|url=http://www.smartcard.co.uk/NOLARCH/2004/September/060904.html#2|access-date=8 July 2011|newspaper=Smart Card News|date=6 September 2004}} In 2010, Cryptomathic's founder, Peter Landrock was named a Finalist for European Inventor 2010 in the "Lifetime Achievement" category by the European Patent Office.{{cite web|title=Master of puzzles|url=http://www.epo.org/news-issues/european-inventor/finalists/2010/landrock.html|work=Nominees and winners - inventor for 2010|publisher=European Patent Office|access-date=8 July 2011|archive-date=17 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017144750/http://www.epo.org/news-issues/european-inventor/finalists/2010/landrock.html|url-status=dead}}
The member of Cryptomathic's advisory board, Whitfield Diffie is co-author of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange, a method of securely exchanging cryptographic keys.{{Cite journal | last1 = Diffie | first1 = W. |author-link1=Whitfield Diffie| last2 = Hellman | first2 = M. |author-link2=Martin Hellman| doi = 10.1109/TIT.1976.1055638 | title = New directions in cryptography | journal = IEEE Transactions on Information Theory| volume = 22 | issue = 6 | pages = 644–654 | year = 1976 | url = //ee.stanford.edu/%7Ehellman/publications/24.pdf}} Diffie and Hellman were awarded with the 2015 Turing Award for "fundamental contributions to modern cryptography" including public-key cryptography and digital signatures.{{cite web|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/diffie_8371646.cfm|title=Cryptography Pioneers Receive 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award| publisher=ACM}}