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 about the winner(s) for the year will be made around May each year. Past winners are listed below in reverse chronological order, from most to least recent.
| Year | Recipient | Contribution(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Craig Gentry & Oded Regev | For major contributions to lattice-based cryptographic encryption, especially for the highly utilized "Learning with Errors"-based cryptosystem, and the first "Fully Homomorphic Encryption" cryptosystem. |
| 2023 | Paul Carl Kocher | For pioneering contributions to cryptographic hardware, and side-channel attacks in particular. |
| 2022 | Cynthia Dwork & Moni Naor | For contributions to the foundation of privacy and to the foundations of cryptography. |
| 2021 | David Pointcheval | For developing provable security arguments for applied public-key cryptographic systems and protocols. |
| 2020 | Joan Daemen & Vincent Rijmen | For major contributions to symmetric key cryptography, including the development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). |
| 2019 | Tal Rabin | For contributions to distributed cryptographic protocols: multi-party computations, threshold cryptography, and signature schemes. |
| 2018 | Ran Canetti | For contributions to the foundations of secure multi-party computation. |
| Rafail Ostrovsky | For contributions to the theory and to new variants of secure multi-party computations. | |
| 2017 | Tatsuaki Okamoto | For contributions to numerous primitives and protocols within public-key cryptography. |
| 2016 | Ueli Maurer | For contributions to information-theoretic cryptography and to analysis of cryptographic schemes. |
| 2015 | Ivan Damgård | For contributions to cryptographic hashing principles and to cryptographic protocols. |
| Hugo Krawczyk | For contributions to hashing-based message authentication codes and to applied key-agreement protocols. | |
| 2014 | Bart Preneel | For contributions to applied cryptography and to the cryptanalysis and design of cryptographic hash functions. |
| 2013 | Jean-Jacques Quisquater | For contributions to cryptographic engineering: hardware, standards, and practical zero-knowledge authentication. |
| Claus P. Schnorr | For contributions to hardware oriented efficient practical zero-knowledge authentication and signatures. | |
| 2012 | Eli Biham | For symmetric key cryptanalysis, in particular for co-inventing differential cryptanalysis. |
| Mitsuru Matsui | For symmetric key cryptanalysis, in particular for inventing linear cryptanalysis. | |
| 2011 | Charles Rackoff | For computational complexity oriented cryptography, including co-inventing zero-knowledge proofs. |
| 2010 | David Chaum | For innovating cryptographic anonymity primitives. |
| 2009 | Neal Koblitz & Victor Miller | For inventing elliptic-curve cryptography. |
| 2008 | Arjen Lenstra | For contributions to computational number theory, including to integer factorization. |
| 2007 | Jacques Stern | For contributions to mathematical techniques underlying proofs of cryptographic protocols and cryptanalysis. |
| 2006 | Oded Goldreich | For basic contributions to the foundations of cryptography. |
| 2005 | Dan Boneh | For innovative designs of cryptographic primitives. |
| 2004 | Silvio Micali | For pioneering theoretical foundations of modern cryptography. |
| 2003 | Mihir Bellare & Phillip Rogaway | For major contributions to practice-oriented secure cryptography. |
| 2002 | Don Coppersmith | For exceptional contributions to symmetric and asymmetric cryptanalysis. |
| 2001 | Scott Vanstone | For outstanding contributions to applied cryptography. |
| 2000 | Ralph Merkle | For co-inventing public-key cryptography: the idea of key exchange and the Merkle's Puzzles. |
| 1999 | John Pollard | For major contributions to algebraic cryptanalysis of integer factorization and discrete logarithm. |
| 1998 | Shafi Goldwasser | For pioneering theoretical foundations of modern cryptography. |