Kevin McCurley (cryptographer)
Computer scientist, cryptographer, mathematician
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| Intro | Computer scientist, cryptographer, mathematician | |
| A.K.A. | Kevin Snow McCurley | |
| A.K.A. | Kevin Snow McCurley | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Mathematician Cryptographer Computer scientist Engineer | |
| Work field | Engineering Mathematics Technology Science | |
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Kevin Snow McCurley is a mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer, currently a research scientist at Google.
He received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1981 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His early research was in number theory, investigating such topics as primes in arithmetic progression and polynomials with many initial composite values. Then he retrained himself in computer science.
A former president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, McCurley was selected as an IACR Fellow in 2005.