| Nikita Borisov | |
| Birth Date: | 24 December 1977 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, USSR |
| Known For: | OTR |
| Occupation: | Professor, UIUC |
| Website: | http://hatswitch.org/~nikita/ |
Nikita Borisov is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His notable work includes one of the first cryptanalyses of the WEP wireless encryption protocol together with Ian Goldberg and David Wagner, and the design of the Off-the-Record Messaging protocol with Goldberg.[1]
Borisov received a B. Math in computer science and pure math in 1997 from the University of Waterloo. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and 2005, respectively.