Paul Syverson
Computer scientist and mathematician at the US Naval Research Laboratory, inventor of onion routing
About Paul Syverson
Born 1958. Paul Syverson is an American computer scientist, mathematician and logician.
Paul Syverson is an American computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing, a feature of the Tor anonymity network.
In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Syverson, and Tor's co-creators Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, among its Top 100 Global Thinkers "for making the web safe for whistleblowers".
In 2014, Syverson was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Computer scientist and mathematician at the US Naval Research Laboratory, inventor of onion routing
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Paul Syverson was born on 27 March 1958.
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Paul Syverson is a computer scientist, mathematician and logician.
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Paul Syverson is American.
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