Taher Elgamal

Quick Facts

Full Name	Taher Elgamal
Occupation	Cryptographer
Date Of Birth	Aug 18, 1955(1955-08-18)
Age	69
Birthplace	Cairo
Country	Egypt
Birth City	Cairo Governorate
Horoscope	Leo

Taher Elgamal Biography

Taher Elgamal is one of the most popular and richest Cryptographer who was born on August 18, 1955 in Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt. Dr. Taher Elgamal (Arabic: طاهر الجمل) (born 18 August 1955) is an Egyptian cryptographer and entrepreneur. He is recognized as the “father of SSL,” for his 1985 paper entitled “A Public key Cryptosystem and A Signature Scheme based on discrete Logarithms” in which he proposed the design of the ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem and of the ElGamal signature scheme and the work he and others at Netscape did on promoting private and secure communications on the internet. He has also participated in the “SET” credit card payment protocol, plus a number of Internet payment schemes.

Elgamal is a recipient of the RSA Conference 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award, and he is recognized as the “father of SSL,” the Internet security standard Secure Sockets Layer. Elgamal and Paul Kocher were jointly awarded the 2019 Marconi Prize for “their development of SSL/TLS and other contributions to the security of communications”.

Taher Elgamal Net Worth

Taher Elgamal is one of the richest Cryptographer from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Taher Elgamal 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Elgamal earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cairo University in 1977, and Masters and Doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1981 and 1984, respectively. Martin Hellman was his dissertation advisor.

He joined the technical staff at HP Labs in 1984. He served as chief scientist at Netscape Communications from 1995 to 1998 where he was a driving force behind SSL. Dr. Elgamal benefited from being a Stanford grad, in Silicon vallery in the “dot-com” era. It could be said that because of his work on SSL/TLS and the work that Netscape was doing with making the web user friendly, the dot-com era actually became a thing. He also was the director of engineering at RSA Security Inc. before founding Securify in 1998 and becoming its CEO. According to an interview with ElGamal, when Securify was acquired by Kroll-O’Gara, he became the president of its information security group. In 2008, Securify was acquired by Secure Computing and is now part of McAfee. In October 2006, he joined Tumbleweed Communications in a capacity of a Chief Technology Officer. Tumbleweed was acquired in 2008 by Axway Inc. Elgamal currently serves as the CTO, Security at Salesforce.com.

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Facts & Trivia

Teri Ranked on the list of most popular Cryptographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Egypt. Taher Elgamal celebrates birthday on August 18 of every year.

Top Facts about Taher Elgamal

1. Taher Elgamal is an Egyptian-American cryptographer.
2. He invented the SSL/TLS protocols used for secure online transactions.
3. Elgamal encryption is a widely-used public key cryptography algorithm.
4. He received the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics in 2019.
5. Elgamal served as Chief Scientist at Netscape Communications Corporation.
6. He holds over 20 patents related to cryptography and computer security.
7. Elgamal has authored numerous research papers on cryptography and network security.
8. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1984.
9. Elgamal was named one of the Top 10 Visionaries in the Security Industry by Information Security Magazine in 2002.
10. He currently serves as CTO of Security at Salesforce.com Inc.

Who is the father of SSL?

Taher Elgamal , the Father of SSL, on why passwords must be eliminated.

Who created El Gamal?

The ElGamal encryption system is a public key encryption algorithm by Taher Elgamal [3] in 1985 that is based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Who is considered the father of SSL for his 1985 paper a public key

cryptosystem and a signature scheme based on discrete logarithms?

Elgamal is also known for his 1985 paper entitled “A Public Key Cryptosystem and A Signature Scheme Based on Discrete Logarithms”, in which he proposed the design of the ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem and of the ElGamal signature scheme.

Why is ElGamal better than RSA?

The degree of difficulty in RSA lies in the factorization of large primes while in ElGamal lies in the calculation of discrete logarithms. After testing, it is proven that RSA performs a faster encryption process than ElGamal. However, ElGamal decryption process is faster than RSA.

Is ElGamal homomorphic?

2.2. ElGamal algorithm ElGamal algorithm is a widely used homomorphic encryption algorithm , which was proposed by ElGamal[10] on the basis of public key cryptography and elliptic curve encryption system in 1985. ElGamal encryption system has a wide range of applications in practice.