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Computer scientist and mathematician at the US Naval Research Laboratory, inventor of onion routing
Paul Syverson
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Computer scientist and mathematician at the US Naval Research Laboratory, inventor of onion routing
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27 March 1958
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Education:
master's degree
Indiana University
( - 1988)
bachelor's degree
Cornell University
( - 1981)
Doctor of Philosophy
Indiana University
( - 1993)
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Biography
Paul Syverson is a computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing, a feature of the Tor anonymity network.
In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Syverson, and Tor's co-creators Dingledine andMathewson, among its Top 100 Global Thinkers "for making the web safe for whistleblowers".
In 2014, Syverson was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.