Elette Boyle () is an American and Israeli computer scientist and cryptographer, known for her research on

secret sharing Secret sharing (also called secret splitting) refers to methods for distributing a secrecy, secret among a group, in such a way that no individual holds any intelligible information about the secret, but when a sufficient number of individuals c ...

, digital signatures, and

obfuscation Obfuscation is the obscuring of the intended meaning of communication by making the message difficult to understand, usually with confusing and ambiguous language. The obfuscation might be either unintentional or intentional (although intent ...

. She is a professor of computer science at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, where she directs the Center for Foundations and Applications of Cryptographic Theory.

Education and career

Boyle is originally from

Yamhill, Oregon Yamhill is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. Located in the northern part of the county, it is situated at the intersection of Oregon Route 47 and Oregon Route 240. The population was 1,147 at the 2020 census. Originally named N ...

. She studied mathematics at the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

, competed for Caltech in the

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, and was named Caltech's female scholar-athlete of the year for 2007–2008. After graduating in 2008, she completed her Ph.D. at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

, under the joint supervision of

Shafi Goldwasser Shafrira Goldwasser (; born 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. A winner of the Turing Award in 2012, she is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a professor o ...

and Yael Tauman Kalai. Before joining the IDC Herzliya faculty, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public university, public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 by Jews under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion is the oldest university in the coun ...

and at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

Recognition

A paper by Boyle on secret sharing using

homomorphic encryption Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that allows computations to be performed on encrypted data without first having to decrypt it. The resulting computations are left in an encrypted form which, when decrypted, result in an output th ...

was given the best paper award at the 2016

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(Crypto). She was an invited plenary speaker at

Public Key Cryptography Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys. Each key pair consists of a public key and a corresponding private key. Key pairs are generated with cryptographic al ...

2018.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyle, Elette Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Yamhill, Oregon American computer scientists American women computer scientists Israeli computer scientists Israeli women computer scientists California Institute of Technology alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Academic staff of Reichman University Theoretical computer scientists Modern cryptographers 21st-century American scientists 21st-century American women scientists 21st-century American mathematicians 21st-century American women mathematicians American cryptographers Israeli cryptographers Israeli women mathematicians American women cryptographers