Education
Born and raised in New York City, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology as both an undergraduate and graduate student, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science in 1974.
cryptographer engineer computer scientist
Born and raised in New York City, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology as both an undergraduate and graduate student, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science in 1974.
He spent a year as a postdoctoral scholar at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique in France. Rackoff currently works at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in computational complexity theory.
Foreign some time now he has been specializing in cryptography and security protocols.
In 1988, he collaborated with Michael Luby in a widely cited analysis of the Feistel cipher construction (one important result shown there is the construction of a strongly pseudo random permutation generator from a pseudo random function generator). Rackoff"s controversial comments on the 2000 memorial for the victims of the Montreal Massacre were reported in the Canadian media.
