Draft:Trevor Perrin
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Trevor Perrin is a consultant on cryptography and protocol design, notably with Moxie Marlinspike.
Influence
[edit]His work doesn't seem to have left any footprint in academic literature, but here's a description from Thomas H. Ptacek:
In case you're wondering: Trevor Perrin is widely respected professional cryptographer. Most cryptographers work for university math departments. Perrin worked for years as a staffer for Paul Kocher, the godfather of side channel attacks, at Cryptography Research. He's the designer of the new forward secrecy ratchet for OTR (Axolotl) and the TACK TLS extension, and a behind-the-scenes contributor to other IETF crypto standards. Perrin wrote the pure-Python "tlslite" TLS implementation. If you were to draw a "family tree" of crypto know-how in the software security profession, a surprisingly huge chunk of it would be rooted in Perrin (and Nate Lawson and Kocher); for instance, virtually every modern TLS break came from ideas that Perrin popularized. 64 current [Matasano Crypto Challenges], probably 50 of them I can trace to Perrin and Lawson. Trevor Perrin is someone you should pay attention to.
Known For
[edit]- Signal Protocol
- Double Ratchet Algorithm
- Noise Protocol Framework
- TACK as part of Marlinspike's Convergence (SSL) strategy NB the tack.io domain-name seems to have lapsed in mid-2024 ()
Awards
[edit]Winner of the 2017 Levchin Prize for real-world cryptography with Moxie Marlinspike “For the development and wide deployment of the Signal protocol”