Melissa Chase

Melissa Erin Chase is an American cryptographer known for her research on attribute-based encryption, digital credentials, and information privacy. She works at Microsoft Research.[1]

For other uses, see Melissa Chase (disambiguation).

Education

Chase graduated in 2003 from Harvey Mudd College, with a senior thesis in mathematics about the shortest path problem, advised by Ran Libeskind-Hadas.[2] She earned a Ph.D. from Brown University with Anna Lysyanskaya as her doctoral advisor.[1]

Contributions

At Microsoft, Chase is one of the developers of Picnic, a digital signature scheme that Microsoft has submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization competition.[3][4] Chase spoke about the project as an invited speaker at Real World Crypto 2018 in Zurich.[5]

gollark: But imagine if advancing technology allowed us to avoid all spoilers ever of any kind anywhere!
gollark: Anyway, you could *probably* work out some sort of system to filter out news-y things on the internet, but of course COVID-19 is quite wideranging so some would likely slip through. And for real life communication you would probably have to... what, block out parts of conversation with constantly on headphone things and dynamically generate replacements? Hard.
gollark: I think they do have somewhat less international travel than the UK does, but yes.
gollark: Also, arrested? NZ must have had much more enforcing enforcement than we did.
gollark: I meant talking about it on discord or facebook or something, but sure.

References
  1. Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2018-11-10
  2. "Melissa Chase, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics 2003", Senior Thesis archives, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Department, retrieved 2018-11-10
  3. Picnic: A Family of Post-Quantum Secure Digital Signature Algorithms, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2018-11-10
  4. "Round 1 Submissions", Post-Quantum Cryptography, National Institute of Standards and Technology, retrieved 2018-11-10
  5. Real World Crypto 2018, retrieved 2018-11-10
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