Ian Goldberg

Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner), and for his role as chief scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero Knowledge Systems), a Canadian software company. Goldberg is currently a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science within the University of Waterloo, and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. He was formerly Tor Project board of directors chairman, and is one of the designers of off the record messaging.

For the television writer, see Ian B. Goldberg.
Ian Avrum Goldberg
Born (1973-03-31) March 31, 1973
Alma mater
  • University of California, Berkeley (M.Sc., Ph.D.)
  • University of Waterloo
    (B.Math)
Known forOff-the-Record Messaging
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Thesis"A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet" (2000)
Doctoral advisorEric Brewer
Websitewww.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/
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