Mihir Bellare is a cryptographer and professor at the

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. He holds a

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degree from the

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and a Ph.D. from the

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. He has published several seminal papers in the field of

cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logy, -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of Adversary (cryptography), ...

(notably in the area of provable security), many of which were co-written with

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. Bellare has published a number of papers in the field of

Format-Preserving Encryption In cryptography, format-preserving encryption (FPE), refers to encrypting in such a way that the output (the ciphertext) is in the same format as the input (the plaintext). The meaning of "format" varies. Typically only finite sets of characters a ...

. His students include Michel Abdalla, Chanathip Namprempre, Tadayoshi Kohno and Anton Mityagin. Bellare is one of the authors of skein. In 2003 Bellare was a recipient of

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's Sixth Annual Award for outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics for his research in cryptography. In 2013 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2019 he was awarded Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography for his outstanding contributions to the design and analysis of real-world cryptosystems, including the development of

random oracle In cryptography, a random oracle is an oracle (a theoretical black box) that responds to every ''unique query'' with a (truly) random response chosen uniformly from its output domain. If a query is repeated, it responds the same way every tim ...

model, modes of operation,

HMAC In cryptography, an HMAC (sometimes expanded as either keyed-hash message authentication code or hash-based message authentication code) is a specific type of message authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function and a se ...

, and models for key exchange. Bellare's papers cover topics including: *

Random oracle In cryptography, a random oracle is an oracle (a theoretical black box) that responds to every ''unique query'' with a (truly) random response chosen uniformly from its output domain. If a query is repeated, it responds the same way every tim ...

* OAEP * Probabilistic signature scheme *

Provable security Provable security refers to any type or level of computer security that can be proved. It is used in different ways by different fields. Usually, this refers to mathematical proofs, which are common in cryptography. In such a proof, the capabilit ...

Format-preserving encryption In cryptography, format-preserving encryption (FPE), refers to encrypting in such a way that the output (the ciphertext) is in the same format as the input (the plaintext). The meaning of "format" varies. Typically only finite sets of characters a ...

On September 14, 2022, Bellare was appointed by the mayor of

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to the city's Privacy Advisory Board.

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Public-key cryptographers University of California, San Diego faculty Living people 2013 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery International Association for Cryptologic Research fellows Year of birth missing (living people) Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni {{compu-scientist-stub