Yehuda Lindell (born 24 February 1971) is an Israeli professor in the Department of Computer Science at
Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...
where he conducts research on cryptography with a focus on the theory of secure computation and its application in practice. Lindell currently leads the cryptography team at
Coinbase
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.
Education and academic positions
Lindell received a BSc and Msc degree in computer science from
Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...
. He then obtained a PhD in computer science from the
Weizmann Institute of Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli uni ...
in 2002. Lindell received a Raviv Fellowship and spent two years at IBM's cryptography research group at the T.J. Watson Research Center. In 2004, he returned to Israel to take up an academic position at Bar-Ilan University. Lindell's work on secure computation was recognized by the award of an ERC starting grant in 2009 and an ERC consolidators grant in 2014. Lindell was appointed as an IACR Fellow in 2021.
Industry experience
Lindell worked from 2004 to 2014 as a permanent cryptographic consultant to
Safenet
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, formally Aladdin. He co-founded the company Unbound Security, and served as its Chief Scientist from 2014 to 2018. In early 2019, he took over the role of CEO of Unbound Security, taking leave from Bar-Ilan University. In January 2022, Unbound Security was acquired by
Coinbase
Coinbase Global, Inc. is an American cryptocurrency exchange. It was founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. Coinbase has over 100 million users, and is the largest U.S. based cryptocurrency exchange as well as the world's bigge ...
, and Lindell now leads their cryptography team.
Research
Lindell's main contributions are in the field of secure multiparty computation. Lindell's research initially focused on theoretical feasibility, and in particular in the area of protocol composition. Lindell has carried out extensive research on efficient two-party secure computation via the
Yao garbled circuit construction, and on efficient multiparty computation for the multiparty honest-majority setting based on
Secret sharing
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. His most cited work is a joint paper with Benny Pinkas on
privacy preserving data mining in which the use of secure computation was proposed for performing data mining algorithms; in particular the ID3 algorithm. Lindell provided the first proof of security for the basic
Yao protocol, and the first proof of security for the BGW protocol. Lindell has also worked on the design of two-party protocols which are secure against active adversaries, the introduction of the concept of covert adversarial models, and much more. Lindell won the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Math in 2006 for his work on the composition of Authenticated Byzantine Agreement, and the best paper award at ACM CCS 2016 for work on high-throughput MPC protocols. In 2021, Lindell published a review article on secure multiparty computation in the
Communications of the ACM
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History
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Articles are i ...
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Lindell is also the co-inventor of the
AES-GCM-SIV mode of operation for symmetric encryption, standardized by the IETF Crypto Forum Research Group in RFC 8452. He received the best paper award at ACM CCS 2017 for the research paper behind
AES-GCM-SIV.
[S. Gueron and Y. Lindell. Better Bounds for Block Cipher Modes of Operation via Nonce-Based Key Derivation. In the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), pages 1019–1036, 2017.]
Lindell is also the author of a textbook with
Jonathan Katz
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on modern cryptography. This textbook is utilized in many universities around the world as a standard reference work.
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External links
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Modern cryptographers
Living people
1971 births