RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics
Starting in 2022, the IACR has agreed to co-sponsor the RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics. An announcement will be made in Feb 2024 about the next winner.
A list of past winners is:
| Year | Recipient | Citation / Major Achievements |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Shafi Goldwasser | For pioneering theoretical foundations of modern cryptography. |
| 1999 | John Pollard | For major contributions to algebraic cryptanalysis of integer factorization and discrete logarithm. |
| 2000 | Ralph Merkle | For co-inventing public-key cryptography: the idea of key exchange and the Merkle's Puzzles. |
| 2001 | Scott Vanstone | For outstanding contributions to applied cryptography. |
| 2002 | Don Coppersmith | For exceptional contributions to symmetric and asymmetric Cryptanalysis. |
| 2003 | Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway | For major contributions to practice oriented secure cryptography. |
| 2004 | Silvio Micali | For pioneering theoretical foundations of modern cryptography. |
| 2005 | Dan Boneh | For innovative designs of cryptographic primitives. |
| 2006 | Oded Goldreich | For basic contributions to the foundations of cryptography. |
| 2007 | Jacques Stern | For contributions to mathematical techniques underlying proofs of cryptographic protocols and cryptanalysis. |
| 2008 | Arjen Lenstra | For contributions to computational number theory, including to integer factorization. |
| 2009 | Neal Koblitz and Victor Miller | For inventing elliptic-curve cryptography. |
| 2010 | David Chaum | For innovating cryptographic anonymity primitives. |
| 2011 | Charles Rackoff | For computational complexity oriented cryptography, including co-inventing zero-knowledge proofs. |
| 2012 | Eli Biham | For symmetric key cryptanalysis, in particular for co-inventing differential cryptanalysis. |
| 2012 | Mitsuru Matsui | For symmetric key cryptanalysis, in particular for inventing linear cryptanalysis. |
| 2013 | Jean-Jacques Quisquater | For contributions to cryptographic engineering: hardware, standards, and practical zero-knowledge authentication. |
| 2013 | Claus P. Schnorr | For contributions to hardware oriented efficient practical zero-knowledge authentication and signatures. |
| 2014 | Bart Preneel | For contributions to applied cryptography and to the cryptanalysis and design of cryptographic hash functions. |
| 2015 | Ivan Damgård | For contributions to cryptographic hashing principles and to cryptographic protocols. |
| 2015 | Hugo Krawczyk | For contributions to hashing based message authentication codes and to applied key-agreement protocols. |
| 2016 | Ueli Maurer | For contributions to Information-theoretic Cryptography and to analysis of cryptographic schemes. |
| 2017 | Tatsuaki Okamoto | For contributions to numerous primitives and protocols within public-key cryptography. |
| 2018 | Ran Canetti | For contributions to the foundations of secure multi-party computation. |
| 2018 | Rafail Ostrovsky | For contributions to the theory and to new variants of secure multi-party computations. |
| 2019 | Tal Rabin | For contributions to distributed cryptographic protocols: Multi-Party Computations, threshold cryptography, and signature schemes. |
| 2020 | Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen | For major contributions to symmetric key cryptography, including the development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)]. |
| 2021 | David Pointcheval | For developing Provable security arguments for applied Public-key cryptographic systems and protocols. |
| 2022 | Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor | For contributions to the foundation of privacy and to the foundations of cryptography. |
| 2023 | Paul Carl Kocher | For pioneering contributions to cryptographic hardware, and side channel attacks in particular. |