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Dr. Michael Anshel – Founder and Advisor

Dr. Anshel is a security thought-leader and world-class mathematician with expertise in the field of cryptography. He has published and lectured extensively on new key agreement protocols and braid group cryptography. Dr. Anshel’s work, in association with Dr. Goldfeld, has included “the introduction of a new intractable problem, distinct from integer factorization or the discrete log problem, that leads to a new class of one-way functions based on the theory of zeta functions, and against which there is no known attack.” Dr. Anshel has recently delivered crypto-related presentations to MSRI (Berkley) Workshop on Number-theoretic Cryptography, RSA 2001, and the 8th International Wigner Symposium 2003.

Dr. Anshel has authored and co-authored numerous papers in the area public-key cryptography and is the co-inventor of four patents in the area of cryptography, zeta-one-way functions, and braid group.

Dr. Anshel has received numerous fellowships and honors, including the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Award 1985, a NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellowship 1982, 1983, and a National Science Foundation Fellowship 1963-1966. He has consulted with several corporations including AT&T Bell Laboratories 1986-1987, Delphic Associates 1983, Mathematica 1968, and Lambda Corp 1968 where he worked with the late Hugh Everett III a pioneer in quantum theory, game theory and discrete optimization. He is currently participating in an ATP-NIST funded Project involving Secure Email through the City University Graduate School.

Dr. Anshel is a member of the AMS, MAA, ACM, IEEE, and IACR. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude, Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at The City College of New York

You can learn more about Dr. Anshel at his home page at CUNY.

Dr. Dorian Goldfeld – Founder and Advisor

Dr. Goldfeld is a world-class mathematician who has published and lectured internationally on a wide range of cryptographic topics and methods.

Dr. Goldfeld was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkley and did post-doctoral work at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and has held professor (associate and visiting) positions at Harvard University, M.I.T., Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy), and University of Texas (Austin).

Honor societies and awards include a Sloan Fellow, the Cole Prize in Number Theory and the Vaughn Prize. Dr. Goldfeld has been the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant every year since 1976.

Dr. Goldfeld has lectured at over 27 conferences around the world and has published over 50 papers on cryptography and mathematic topics including applications of elliptic curves, quadratic fields, zeta functions, public-key cryptography, and group theoretic approaches to public-key cryptography. Dr. Goldfeld has edited and/or authored four books and has been the organizer of numerous conferences around the world.

He is the co-inventor of three patents in the areas of multistream encryption systems, high-speed cryptography, and cryptographically secure algebraic key establishment protocols based on monoids.

Dr. Goldfeld received a BS from the School of Engineering and a PhD. from Columbia University. He has been a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at Columbia since 1985 and is a member of the American Mathematical Society.

You can learn more about Dr. Goldfeld at his Wikipedia listing and on his home page at Columbia University.