Eli Biham

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Eli Biham
אלי ביהם
Eli Biham in 2009.
Born	1960 (age 63–64)
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute
Known for	Studies in cryptography and cryptanalysis (invention and breaking of Encryption functions), specifically Differential cryptanalysis
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Adi Shamir

Eli Biham (Hebrew: אלי ביהם) is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst who is a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science department. From 2008 to 2013, Biham was the dean of the Technion Computer Science department, after serving for two years as chief of CS graduate school. Biham invented (publicly) differential cryptanalysis,^[1] for which he received his Ph.D., while working under Adi Shamir. It had been invented before by a team at IBM during their Data Encryption Standard work; the National Security Agency told IBM to keep the discovery secret.^{[citation needed]}