Kaisa Nyberg | |
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Born | May 13, 1948 |
Kaisa Nyberg is a cryptographer and computer security researcher and an emeritus professor at Aalto University School of Science. She retired from Aalto University in May 2016. Her notable work includes the theory of perfect nonlinear S-boxes (now known as Nyberg S-boxes), provably secure block cipher design (resulting in KN-Cipher), and the cryptanalysis of the stream ciphers E0 and SNOW.
Nyberg received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1980 from the University of Helsinki, with a dissertation in topology.