Edna Grossman

Edna Grossman (born Edna Kalka) is an American mathematician. She was born in Germany, grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated with a B.S. in mathematics from Brooklyn College. She earned her M.S. in mathematics from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where she also received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1972; her thesis, supervised by Wilhelm Magnus, concerned the symmetries of free groups.[1] Grossman worked for IBM, where she was part of the team that designed and analyzed the Data Encryption Standard.[2] She is known for her development, along with Bryant Tuckerman, of the first slide attack in cryptanalysis.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Edna Grossman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Stallings, William (1996), Practical Cryptography for Data Internetworks, IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 24, ISBN 9780818671401.
  3. ↑ Biryukov, Alex; Wagner, David (1999), "Slide attacks", in Knudsen, Lars, Fast Software Encryption: 6th International Workshop, FSE’99 Rome, Italy, March 24–26, 1999, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1636, pp. 245–259, doi:10.1007/3-540-48519-8_18, The first step in this direction can be dated back to a 1978 paper by Grossman and Tuckerman.


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