Paul Syverson

Paul Syverson is a computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing, a feature of the Tor anonymity network.[1][2]

Paul Syverson

PhD
NationalityUnited States
Known forInvention of Onion routing
Academic background
Alma materIndiana University
Academic work
DisciplineMathematician
InstitutionsCenter for High Assurance Computer Systems, US Naval Research Laboratory
Main interestsTraffic-secure communications
Websitehttp://www.syverson.org/

In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Syverson, and Tor's co-creators Dingledine and 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]

References

  1. "A Model of Onion Routing with Provable Anonymity | SpringerLink". Link.springer.com. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  2. "Almost Everyone Involved in Developing Tor was (or is) Funded by the US Government". Pando. 2014-07-16. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  3. Wittmeyer, Alicia P.Q. (26 November 2012). "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  4. McKinney, Donna (19 February 2015). "NRL's Paul Syverson Named Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery". US Naval Research Laboratory. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  5. "Paul Syverson". awards.acm.org.


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