Charles Rackoff

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Charles Rackoff
Image:Charles Rackoff.jpg
Born	New York City
Fields	Cryptology
Institutions	University of Toronto
Notable awards	Gödel Prize (1993)

Charles W. Rackoff is a noted modern cryptologist. He was born and raised in New York City. Charles attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student, and earned a degree in Computer Science in 1974. He spent a year as a post-doc at INRIA in France. Currently he works at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in computational complexity theory. For 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. Rackoff was awarded the 1993 Gödel Prize for his work on interactive proof systems and zero-knowledge proofs.^[1]

He has also spoken out against memorials for the female students murdered in the Montreal Massacre, comparing such memorials to KKK propaganda.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Computer Science: Prof. Rackoff
2. ^ CBC news. "Professor criticizes Montreal massacre memorials", CBC, 7 December 2000; accessed 5 June 2008

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