10 Facts About Ian Goldberg

Ian Avrum Goldberg was born on March 31,1973 and is a cryptographer and cypherpunk.

Ian Goldberg is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL, and for his role as chief scientist of Radialpoint, a Canadian software company.

Ian Goldberg was formerly Tor Project board of directors chairman, and is one of the designers of off the record messaging.

Ian Goldberg's thesis was entitled A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet.

Ian Goldberg was a member of University of Waterloo team that won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 1994.

Ian Goldberg was a co-author of the Off-the-Record instant messaging encryption protocol.

Ian Goldberg is the author of the Perl script included in the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

In 2009 Ian Goldberg was co-author of the Sphinx Mix Format, which isadays implemented with the extension of a per-hop payload to increase the privacy of both payer and payee while routing Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network.

Ian Goldberg is a member of the Cryptography, Security and Privacy group as well as the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.

Ian Goldberg has been collaborating with the CPI works on the development of a new interdisciplinary research and education program.