Eran Tromer
{{Short description|Professor of computer science}}
Eran Tromer is a professor of computer science at Boston University. His research focuses on information security, cryptography and algorithms.{{Cite web |title=Eran Tromer |website=Boston University College of Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.bu.edu/cs/profiles/eran-tromer/}}{{Cite web |title=Hariri Institute Welcomes New Faculty Affiliates Eran Tromer (CS) and Tianyu Wang (ENG) |last=Wojtanik |first=Chloe |url=https://www.bu.edu/hic/2024/04/05/hariri-institute-welcomes-new-faculty-affiliates-tromer-wang/}} He is a founding scientist of Zcash.{{Cite magazine |title=The Crazy Security Behind the Birth of Zcash, the Inside Story |last=Peck |first=Morgen |magazine=IEEE Spectrum |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-crazy-security-behind-the-birth-of-zcash}}
Biography
Tromer received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2024, he joined Boston University's Hariri Institute for Computing.
Research
In 2014, Tromer and his colleagues demonstrated an RSA key extraction attack using acoustic cryptanalysis, a type of side-channel attack.{{Cite conference |title=RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis |last1=Genkin |first1=Daniel |last2=Shamir |first2=Adi |author-link2=Adi Shamir |last3=Tromer |first3=Eran |conference=Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2014}}
In 2014, Tromer coauthored the design of Zerocash,{{Cite conference |title=Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin |last1=Ben-Sasson | first1=Eli |author-link1=Eli Ben-Sasson |last2=Chiesa |first2=Alessandro |author-link2=Alessandro Chiesa |last3=Garman |first3=Christina |last4=Green |first4=Matthew |author-link4=Matthew D. Green |last5=Miers |first5=Ian |last6=Eran |first6=Tromer |last7=Virza |first7=Madars |conference=2014 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy}} which laid the foundation for the Zcash protocol. The work was recognized by the Test of Time Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.{{Cite web |title=45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy |url=https://sp2024.ieee-security.org/awards.html}}
Awards
- ACM CCS The Test-of-Time Award (2019){{cite web | url=http://sigsac.org/ccs/CCS_awards/ccs-tta.html | title=ACM CCS the Test-of-Time Awards }}
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award (2024){{Cite web |title=Eran Tromer Honored with the Test of Time Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2024 |url=https://www.bu.edu/hic/2024/06/27/eran-tromer-honored-with-the-test-of-time-award-at-the-ieee-symposium-on-security-and-privacy-sp-2024/}}
References
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External links
- [https://cs-people.bu.edu/tromer/ Home Page]
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Category:Modern cryptographers
Category:Israeli cryptographers
Category:Boston University faculty