Paul Syverson
Computer scientist and mathematician at the US Naval Research Laboratory, inventor of onion routing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Syverson is a computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing, a feature of the Tor anonymity network.[1][2]
Paul Syverson | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Invention of onion routing |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Indiana University |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Center for High Assurance Computer Systems, US Naval Research Laboratory |
| Main interests | Traffic-secure communications |
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]
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