Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr.

Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr.
Born (1945-02-21) February 21, 1945
New Bedford, MA
Nationality  United States
Fields Mathematics
Computer science
Institutions Purdue University
University of Georgia
University of Rochester
Alma mater Cornell University and MIT
Known for Wagstaff prime

Samuel Standfield Wagstaff, Jr. (born 21 February 1945) is an American mathematician and computer scientist born in 1945, whose research interests are in the areas of cryptography, parallel computation, and analysis of algorithms, especially number theoretic algorithms. He is currently a professor of computer science and mathematics at Purdue University[1] who coordinates the Cunningham project, a project to factor numbers of the form bn ± 1, since 1983. He has authored/coauthored over 50 research papers and three books.[2]

Wagstaff received his Bachelor of Science in 1966 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral dissertation was titled, On Infinite Matroids, Ph.D. in 1970 from Cornell University.[1][3]

Wagstaff was one of the founding faculty of Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue, and its precursor, the Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology (COAST) Laboratory.

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