Jennifer Seberry

Jennifer Roma Seberry (also published as Jennifer Seberry Wallis; born 13 February 1944 in Camperdown, Sydney) is an Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist. She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong. She was the first person to teach cryptology at an Australian university, the first woman Professor of Computer Science in Australia, and the first woman Reader in Combinatorial Mathematics in Australia. She is also the first higher-degree graduate in mathematics from La Trobe University and its first woman higher-degree graduate.

Early Life and Education Seberry was born on 13 February 1944 in Camperdown, Sydney. She grew up across several suburbs of Sydney including North Parramatta, Ryde, North Narrabeen, Rydalmere, and Smithfield. She attended Parramatta High School, which was at the time the only co-educational school in New South Wales where girls could study Physics Honours for the Leaving Certificate. She was La Trobes first higher-degree graduate in mathematics and its first woman higher-degree graduate. [5She served as a Director of the IACR from 1990 to 1992.

Research

Cryptographic algorithms In 1989, Seberry worked with Lawrie Brown and Josef Pieprzyk to design the LOKI block cipher family at ADFA. LOKI89 was proposed as a successor to DES, and improved versions LOKI91 and LOKI97 followed.

Selected Publications

Books

Geramita, A. V. and Seberry, J. (1979). Orthogonal Designs: Quadratic Forms and Hadamard Matrices. Marcel Dekker. Pieprzyk, J. and Seberry, J. (1989). Cryptography: An Introduction to Computer Security, Prentice Hall. Pieprzyk, J., Hardjono, T. and Seberry, J. (2003). Fundamentals of Computer Security.Springer. . Tran, L. C., Wysocki, T. A., Seberry, J. and Mertins, A. (2006). Complex Orthogonal Space-Time Processing in Wireless Communications. Springer. . Seberry, J. (2018). Orthogonal Designs: Hadamard Matrices, Quadratic Forms and Algebras. Springer. . Seberry, J. and Yamada, M. (2020). Hadamard Matrices: Constructions using Number Theory and Linear Algebra. John Wiley. .

Selected papers

Brown, L., Pieprzyk, J. and Seberry, J. (1990). LOKI: A cryptographic primitive. Auscrypt 1990, Springer-Verlag. Zheng, Y., Pieprzyk, J. and Seberry, J. (1993). HAVAL: A one-way hashing algorithm with variable length output. Auscrypt 1992, LNCS 718, pp. 83 to 104. Biham, E. and Seberry, J. (2005). Py (Roo): A Fast and Secure Stream Cipher. EUROCRYPT 2005 Rump Session.