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Chris Hall

American cryptographer

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Chris Hall was an American cryptographer and engineer.

Christopher Hall is an American cryptographer and mathematician, specializing in arithmetic geometry. He is one of the creators of the cryptosystem Twofish. He obtained a BS from the University of Colorado-Boulder Department of Computer Science and a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2003, under Nick Katz.

He is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Western Ontario.

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Occupation
Cryptographer, engineer
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Education
Princeton University

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American cryptographer

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Chris Hall

· Wikidata: Q5106764

· DBpedia: Chris Hall (cryptographer)

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