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{{Short description|Cryptography company}}
{{Infobox company
| name   = CRYPTOMAThIC
| logo   = Logo cryptomathic.png
| type   = [[Social:Limited liability company|Limited liability company]]
| foundation     = 1986
| location       = Aarhus, Denmark
| key_people     = Peter Landrock,<br /> Founder and executive chairman
| num_employees  = ~ 100 (2023)
| products       = [[Public key infrastructure]] Software Suite; advanced [[Key management|key management]] system; [[Strong authentication]] solution; data preparation software and management of cryptographic resources
| homepage       = {{URL|http://www.cryptomathic.com/}}
}}
'''Cryptomathic''' is a [[Software|software]] company specializing in the area of [[Cryptography|cryptography]] for e-commerce security systems. The company develops secure software for the financial and governmental industries. It focuses especially on developing back-end solutions using [[Finance:Hardware security module|hardware security module]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cryptomathic.com/company/about-us |title=Cryptomathic About us |date=27 March 2015 |access-date=27 March 2015}}</ref>

Cryptomathic has its headquarters in Aarhus, Denmark. The company was founded in 1986, by three [[Social:Professor|professor]]s from University of Aarhus, among them Peter Landrock and Ivan Damgård.  It now operates world-wide with offices in [[Place:London|London]], UK; [[Place:Munich|Munich]], Germany and San Jose, California, US<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cryptomathic.com/contact/cryptomathic-offices |title=Cryptomathic Contact |date=27 March 2015 |access-date=27 March 2015}}</ref>

Cryptomathic has collaborated in research projects with the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences to develop Cryptomathic's systems for securing messaging between [[Finance:Hardware security module|hardware security module]]s (HSMs). With Bristol University, Cryptomathic conducted research on [[Authenticated encryption|authenticated encryption]] between HSMs.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=A. Beckmann |author2=S. B. Cooper |author3=B. Löwe |author4=E. Mayordomo |title= Semantics and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing |url= https://www.newton.ac.uk/files/reports/scientific/sas.pdf |journal=Scientific Report, Isaac Newton Institute|date=2012}}</ref>

==Awards and recognition==
In 2002, Cryptomathic's chief cryptographer Vincent Rijmen<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cryptomathic.com/company/management-team | title=Cryptomathic Management Team | access-date=2013-04-05}}</ref> was named one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35 by the [[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] Technology Review TR100.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2002 |title=2002 Young Innovators Under 35 |magazine=Technology Review | year=2002 | access-date=2012-12-16}}</ref>

In 2003, Cryptomathic was recognized by the [[Organization:World Economic Forum|World Economic Forum]] as a Technology Pioneer, based on its innovative product for mobile electronic signatures.<ref>{{cite web|last=Apax Partners|first=Deloitte Touche Tomatsu|title=The impact of innovation|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:8ZBpaD2ab0wJ:www.apax.com/APAX_TECH_PIONEERS_2003.pdf+cryptomathic+%22technology+pioneer%22&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjjtWAGnU-Kto1VTVyPQoIKd6ljmf-Jm1Im5vhGXldZmIjQfWV153ag9Bht8Q9E4JZf3oUgazjpPJ-ZW28dtaLpQLMgF1kFmK7l1meIHRbiUDXLzsoWZcTtpWhuxmJJQNwhJNn7&sig=AHIEtbRIVa8grWZrply8k9r8xvIsLFehSQ&pli=1|work=World Economic Forum - Technology Pioneers programme|publisher=Apax Partners|access-date=8 July 2011}}</ref> The term "What You See Is What You Sign" ([[WYSIWYS]]) was coined in 1998 by Peter Landrock and Torben Pedersen of Cryptomathic during their work on delivering secure and legally binding digital signatures for Pan-European projects.<ref>P. Landrock, T. Pedersen, "WYSIWYS? -- What you see is what you sign?". Information Security Technical Report, Volume 3, Number 2, 1998, pp. 55–61</ref> In 2004, Cryptomathic received the [[Company:Visa Inc.|Visa]] Smart Star Award for it contributions to the field of EMV and [[Finance:Chip and PIN|Chip and PIN]] based on its data preparation offering.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cryptomathic Awarded Visa Smart Star|url=http://www.smartcard.co.uk/NOLARCH/2004/September/060904.html#2|access-date=8 July 2011|newspaper=Smart Card News|date=6 September 2004}}</ref> In 2010, Cryptomathic's founder, Peter Landrock was named a Finalist for European Inventor 2010 in the "Lifetime Achievement" category by the European Patent Office.<ref>{{cite web|title=Master of puzzles|url=http://www.epo.org/news-issues/european-inventor/finalists/2010/landrock.html|work=Nominees and winners - inventor for 2010|publisher=European Patent Office|access-date=8 July 2011|archive-date=17 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017144750/http://www.epo.org/news-issues/european-inventor/finalists/2010/landrock.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The member of Cryptomathic's advisory board, [[Biography:Whitfield Diffie|Whitfield Diffie]] is co-author of the [[Diffie–Hellman key exchange]], a method of securely exchanging cryptographic keys.<ref name="Diffie 1976">{{Cite journal | last1 = Diffie | first1 = W. | last2 = Hellman | first2 = M. |author-link2=Martin Hellman| doi = 10.1109/TIT.1976.1055638 | title = New directions in cryptography | journal = [[IEEE Transactions on Information Theory]]| volume = 22 | issue = 6 | pages = 644&ndash;654 | year = 1976 | url = //ee.stanford.edu/%7Ehellman/publications/24.pdf}}</ref> Diffie and Hellman were awarded with the 2015 Turing Award for "fundamental contributions to modern cryptography" including [[Public-key cryptography|public-key cryptography]] and digital signatures.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/diffie_8371646.cfm|title=Cryptography Pioneers Receive 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award| publisher=ACM}}</ref>

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