Matthew K. Franklin
American computer scientist
About Matthew K. Franklin
Born 2000. Matthew K. Franklin is an American mathematician, computer scientist, cryptographer and university teacher, known for Boneh-Franklin scheme.
Matthew Keith "Matt" Franklin is an American cryptographer, and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.
Education and employment Franklin did his undergraduate studies at Pomona College, graduating in 1983 with a degree in mathematics, and was awarded a master's degree in mathematics in 1985 by the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the UC Davis faculty in 2000, he worked at Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs.
From 2009 to 2014, Franklin was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology.
Research contributions Franklin is particularly known for the Boneh–Franklin scheme, a cryptography scheme he developed with Dan Boneh that uses the mathematics of elliptic curves to automatically generate public and private key pairs based on the identities of the communicating parties. In 2013, he and Boneh were winners of the Gödel Prize for their work on this system.
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American computer scientist
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Matthew K. Franklin was born in 2000.
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Matthew K. Franklin is a mathematician, computer scientist, cryptographer and university teacher.
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Matthew K. Franklin is known for Boneh-Franklin scheme.
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