Dan Boneh
- Co-author of BLS signatures, Short Signatures from the Weil Pairing
- Principal contributor to pairing-based cryptography
- Author of the Stanford online cryptography course and A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
Bio
Dan Boneh is a professor of computer science at Stanford, a principal contributor to pairing-based cryptography, and a co-author of BLS signatures with Ben Lynn and Hovav Shacham. His free online cryptography course and the applied cryptography textbook he wrote with Victor Shoup are how a large share of working engineers learned the subject.
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Where their work shows up
BLS signatures are the B, L, and S of the BBS signature scheme used for unlinkable credential presentation, which is the mechanism that lets a holder prove an attribute repeatedly without the presentations being correlatable. That property is what separates genuinely private credential use from selective disclosure that still leaves a fixed signature behind. The teaching matters as much: identity engineers who understand why a scheme works make better choices than those following a checklist. See decentralized identifiers and OpenID4VC.
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