Phillip Rogaway I am a professor in the Department of Computer Science (CS) at the University of California, Davis (UCD). I have also been a visiting professor at a bunch of places, including several years at Chiang Mai University (TH) and extended stays at Chulalongkorn University (TH), ENS Paris (FR), ETH Zürich (CH), and the Isaac Newton Institute (UK). My research is in cryptography. After doing my undergrad work at UCB I did my Ph.D. in MIT’s Theory of Computation group (1991), graduating under Silvio Micali. After that I worked at IBM as a security architect, then came to UCD (1994), where I’ve spent much of the last 28 years. My research has focused on obtaining provably good solutions to protocol problems of utility to people’s privacy and security. I’ve been lucky enough to get some nice recognition for my work, including the Levchin prize (2016), PET Award (2015), IACR Fellow (2012), ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (2009), and the RSA Award in Mathematics (2003). I love teaching. Not only at the university, but also some wonderful K-12 students.

In recent years I’ve grown skeptical of the claimed benefits of CS; those benefits seem more than outweighted by the harm that we cause. I have shifted by attention to social and ethical issues connected to technology, especially the climate crisis and the problem of mass surveillance. Corresondingly, I shifted most of my university teaching to ethics (course ecs188). I support social justice and environmental movements including BDS, BLM, and XR. I anticipate retiring from UCD in 2023. I am getting old—now 60—and my views—and the surrounding culture—have evolved to a place where I am quite the outsider where I am.

• Office hours: By appointment only this term. Mostly we meet in my Zoom room. Sometimes in my Jitsi room
  
• Research: Papers (dblp and Google Scholar) · Summary · CV · Funding
• Teaching: No scheduled teaching until Spring 2023, when I will teach two section of ecs188 and one section of ecs20
  All classes · My grad students · Advice for our UG majors
• Schemes: AEZ · CMAC · DHIES · EME2 · FFX · OAEP · OCB · PSS · UMAC · XTS
• Miscellaneous: On Being a Computer Scientist Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) (last lecture of a recent class) · Cancelling my Spring 2020 teaching · Consulting · Sister’s business

• Reimagining Secret Sharing: Creating a Safer and More Versatile Primitive by Adding Authenticity, Correcting Errors, and Reducing Randomness Requirements (2020)
• The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (2015)
• Security of Symmetric Encryption Against Mass Surveillance (with Mihir Bellare and Kenny Paterson) (2014)
  
• An open letter from US researchers in cryptography and information security (2014) (media coverage)
• IACR’s Copenhagen Resolution (the professional organization for cryptographers) (2014)
• Statement of condemnation of U.S. mass-surveillance programs, and a reminder of our ethical responsibilities as computer scientists (2013)

 
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