Ronald Cramer

{{Short description|Dutch computer scientist (born 1968)}}

Ronald John Fitzgerald Cramer (born 3 February 1968 in Haarlem)[http://albumacademicum.uva.nl/id/id050122 R.J.F. Cramer, 1968 -] at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum website is a professor at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and the University of Leiden. He obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1997. Prior to returning to the Netherlands he was at the University of Aarhus.

He is best known for his work with Victor Shoup on chosen ciphertext secure encryption in the standard model, in particular the Cramer–Shoup encryption scheme.{{cite journal |first=R. |last=Cramer |first2=V. |last2=Shoup |title=Design and Analysis of Practical Public-Key Encryption Schemes Secure against Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attack |journal=SIAM Journal on Computing |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=167–226 |year=2003 |doi=10.1137/S0097539702403773 |citeseerx=10.1.1.78.2904 }}

Cramer became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/14307 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129202547/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/14307 |title=Ronald Cramer |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |archive-date=29 January 2016 |access-date=29 January 2016}} He is member of the advisory board of the German Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt CASED.