Biography:Paul Syverson

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Short description: Computer scientist and mathematician at the US Naval Research Laboratory, inventor of onion routing
Paul Syverson
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NationalityAmerican
Known forInvention of onion routing
Academic background
Alma materIndiana University
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
InstitutionsCenter for High Assurance Computer Systems, US Naval Research Laboratory
Main interestsTraffic-secure communications

Paul Syverson is a computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing, a feature of the Tor anonymity network.[1][2]

In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Syverson, and Tor's co-creators Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, among its Top 100 Global Thinkers "for making the web safe for whistleblowers".[3]

In 2014, Syverson was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[4][5]

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