Melissa Erin Chase is an American cryptographer known for her research on attribute-based encryption, digital credentials, and information privacy. She works at Microsoft Research.[1]
Education
editChase graduated in 2003 from Harvey Mudd College, with a senior thesis in mathematics about the shortest path problem, advised by Ran Libeskind-Hadas.[2] She earned a Ph.D. from Brown University with Anna Lysyanskaya as her doctoral advisor.[1]
Contributions
editAt Microsoft, Chase is one of the developers of Picnic, a digital signature scheme that Microsoft has submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization competition.[3][4] Chase spoke about the project as an invited speaker at Real World Crypto 2018 in Zürich.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2018-11-10
- ^ "Melissa Chase, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics 2003", Senior Thesis archives, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Department, retrieved 2018-11-10
- ^ Picnic: A Family of Post-Quantum Secure Digital Signature Algorithms, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2018-11-10
- ^ "Round 1 Submissions", Post-Quantum Cryptography, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 3 January 2017, retrieved 2018-11-10
- ^ Real World Crypto 2018, retrieved 2018-11-10
External links
edit- Melissa Chase publications indexed by Google Scholar