Tanja Lange

Tanja Lange at 30C3, 2013

Tanja Lange is a German cryptographer and number theorist at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She is known for her research on post-quantum cryptography.[1][2]

Education and career

Lange earned a diploma in mathematics in 1998 from the Technical University of Braunschweig.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 2001 at the Universität Duisburg-Essen. Her dissertation, jointly supervised by Gerhard Frey and YoungJu Choie, concerned Efficient Arithmetic on Hyperelliptic Curves.[4]

After postdoctoral studies at Ruhr University Bochum, she became an associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark in 2005. She moved to the Eindhoven University of Technology as a full professor in 2007.[3]

At Eindhoven, she chairs the coding theory and cryptology group[5] and is scientific director of the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information.[6] She is also the coordinator of PQCRYPTO, a European multi-university consortium to make electronic communications future-proof against threats such as quantum factorization.[1] She is one of the main authors of The Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography, published in 2005.[7]

See also

  • NaCl, a cryptography software library developed by Lange and others

References

  1. ^ a b Dysart, Joe (March 6, 2018), "Hackers' Delight: Does Quantum Computing Spell the End for Encryption?", Communications of the ACM
  2. ^ "Tanja Lange". ICMC20, April 28 - May 1, Maryland, USA. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  3. ^ a b Prof. Dr. Tanja Lange: Vita, International School of IT Security AG, retrieved 2018-10-26
  4. ^ Tanja Lange at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Coding Theory and Cryptology staff, Eindhoven University of Technology, retrieved 2018-10-26
  6. ^ EIPSI staff, Eindhoven University of Technology, retrieved 2018-10-26
  7. ^ "Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography". CRC Press. Retrieved 2019-05-24.

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