Nick Mathewson

Nick Mathewson is an American computer scientist and co-founder of The Tor Project. He, along with Roger Dingledine, began working on onion routing shortly after they graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 2000s. He is also known by his pseudonym nickm.

Education Mathewson graduated from MIT in 2002, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. He later earned a Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Linguistics from MIT.

Works

The Tor Project Tor was developed by Mathewson, along with his two colleagues, under a contract from the United States Naval Research Laboratory.

Selected publications