Eran Tromer is a professor of computer science at Boston University. His research focuses on information security, cryptography and algorithms. He is a founding scientist of Zcash.
Biography
Tromer received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2024, he joined Boston University's Hariri Institute for Computing.
Research
In 2014, Tromer and his colleagues demonstrated an RSA key extraction attack using acoustic cryptanalysis, a type of side-channel attack.
In 2014, Tromer coauthored the design of Zerocash, which laid the foundation for the Zcash protocol. The work was recognized by the Test of Time Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Awards
- ACM CCS The Test-of-Time Award (2019)
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award (2024)
References
- ^ "Eran Tromer". Boston University College of Arts and Sciences.
- ^ Wojtanik, Chloe. "Hariri Institute Welcomes New Faculty Affiliates Eran Tromer (CS) and Tianyu Wang (ENG)".
- ^ Peck, Morgen. "The Crazy Security Behind the Birth of Zcash, the Inside Story". IEEE Spectrum.
- Genkin, Daniel; Shamir, Adi; Tromer, Eran. RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis. Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2014.
- Ben-Sasson, Eli; Chiesa, Alessandro; Garman, Christina; Green, Matthew; Miers, Ian; Eran, Tromer; Virza, Madars. Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin. 2014 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
- ^ "45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy".
- http://sigsac.org/ccs/CCS_awards/ccs-tta.html
- "Eran Tromer Honored with the Test of Time Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2024".