Nikita Borisov
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OccupationsProfessor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
KnownforOTR
Nikita Borisov | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 December 1977 |
| Occupations | Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Known for | OTR |
| Website | http://hatswitch.org/~nikita/ |
Nikita Borisov is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His notable work includes one of the first cryptanalyses of the WEP wireless encryption protocol together with Ian Goldberg and David Wagner, and the design of the Off-the-Record Messaging protocol with Goldberg.[1]
Borisov received a B. Math in computer science and pure math in 1997 from the University of Waterloo. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002 and 2005, respectively.
