Eran Tromer is a professor of computer science at Boston University. His research focuses on information security, cryptography and algorithms.[1][2] He is a founding scientist of Zcash.[1][3]
Biography
editTromer received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science.[1] In 2024, he joined Boston University's Hariri Institute for Computing.[2]
Research
editIn 2014, Tromer and his colleagues demonstrated an RSA key extraction attack using acoustic cryptanalysis, a type of side-channel attack.[4][3]
In 2014, Tromer coauthored the design of Zerocash,[5] 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.[6]
Awards
edit- ACM CCS The Test-of-Time Award (2019)[7]
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award (2024)[6][8]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Eran Tromer". Boston University College of Arts and Sciences.
- ^ a b Wojtanik, Chloe. "Hariri Institute Welcomes New Faculty Affiliates Eran Tromer (CS) and Tianyu Wang (ENG)".
- ^ a b Peck, Morgen. "The Crazy Security Behind the Birth of Zcash, the Inside Story". IEEE Spectrum.
- ^ Genkin, Daniel; Shamir, Adi; Tromer, Eran. RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis. Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2014.
- ^ Ben-Sasson, Eli; Chiesa, Alessandro; Garman, Christina; Green, Matthew; Miers, Ian; Eran, Tromer; Virza, Madars. Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin. 2014 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
- ^ a b "45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy".
- ^ http://sigsac.org/ccs/CCS_awards/ccs-tta.html
- ^ "Eran Tromer Honored with the Test of Time Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2024".