1. Yehuda Lindell was born on 24 February 1971 and is an Israeli professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University where he conducts research on cryptography with a focus on the theory of secure computation and its application in practice.
Yehuda Lindell then obtained a PhD in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2002.
Yehuda Lindell worked from 2004 to 2014 as a permanent cryptographic consultant to Safenet, formally Aladdin.
Yehuda Lindell co-founded the company Unbound Security, and served as its Chief Scientist from 2014 to 2018.
In January 2022, Unbound Security was acquired by Coinbase, and Yehuda Lindell now leads their cryptography team.
Yehuda Lindell has carried out extensive research on efficient two-party secure computation via the Yao garbled circuit construction, and on efficient multiparty computation for the multiparty honest-majority setting based on Secret sharing.
Yehuda Lindell's most cited work is a joint paper with Benny Pinkas on privacy preserving data mining in which the use of secure computation was proposed for performing data mining algorithms; in particular the ID3 algorithm.
Yehuda Lindell provided the first proof of security for the basic Yao protocol, and the first proof of security for the BGW protocol.
Yehuda Lindell has worked on the design of two-party protocols which are secure against active adversaries, the introduction of the concept of covert adversarial models, and much more.
Yehuda Lindell won the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Math in 2006 for his work on the composition of Authenticated Byzantine Agreement, and the best paper award at ACM CCS 2016 for work on high-throughput MPC protocols.
In 2021, Yehuda Lindell published a review article on secure multiparty computation in the Communications of the ACM.
Yehuda Lindell is the co-inventor of the AES-GCM-SIV mode of operation for symmetric encryption, standardized by the IETF Crypto Forum Research Group in RFC 8452.
Yehuda Lindell received the best paper award at ACM CCS 2017 for the research paper behind AES-GCM-SIV.
Yehuda Lindell is the author of a textbook with Jonathan Katz on modern cryptography.