Taher Elgamal: advisors and students

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Taher Elgamal

American cryptographerborn 1955

Wikidata names Martin Edward Hellman as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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known as: cryptographer, mathematician, computer scientist, cryptologist
fields: cryptography
awards: Marconi Prize, 2019
notable works: A Public-Key Cryptosystem and a Signature Scheme Based on Discrete Logarithms, ElGamal encryption, ElGamal signature scheme
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