Paul Syverson Explained
| Paul Syverson |
| Nationality: | American |
| Known For: | Invention of onion routing |
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| Alma Mater: | Indiana University |
| Discipline: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Center for High Assurance Computer Systems, US Naval Research Laboratory |
| Main Interests: | Traffic-secure communications |
Paul Syverson is a computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing, a feature of the Tor anonymity network.[1] [2]
In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Syverson, and Tor's co-creators Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, among its Top 100 Global Thinkers "for making the web safe for whistleblowers".[3]
In 2014, Syverson was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[4] [5]
Notes and References
- Book: A Model of Onion Routing with Provable Anonymity . SpringerLink . 10.1007/978-3-540-77366-5_9 . 2020-03-01.
- Web site: Almost Everyone Involved in Developing Tor was (or is) Funded by the US Government . Pando . 2014-07-16 . 2020-03-01.
- Web site: The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers . Alicia P.Q. . Wittmeyer . . 26 November 2012 . 28 November 2012 . 30 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121130221322/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,33 . dead .
- Web site: McKinney . Donna . NRL's Paul Syverson Named Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery . US Naval Research Laboratory . 2 March 2020 . en . 19 February 2015.
- Web site: Paul Syverson . . ACM Awards .
