George Robert Blakley Jr | |
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| Born | May 6, 1932 |
| Died | December 10, 2018 (aged 86) |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University (BSc) University of Maryland (PhD) |
| Known for | Secret sharing |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cryptography |
| Institutions | Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, State University of New York at Buffalo |
| Thesis | (1960) |
George Robert (Bob) Blakley Jr. was an American cryptographer and a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University, best known for inventing a secret sharing scheme in 1979 (see [1]).