Charles Rackoff

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Canadian person computer scientist cryptographer

Charles Rackoff is a Canadian computer scientist known for his influential work in cryptography and computational complexity theory.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Canadian person → computer scientist → cryptographer →
academicAdvisor	Albert R. Meyer →
affiliation	Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto →
citizenship	Canada →
coAuthorWith	Shafi Goldwasser → Silvio Micali →
countryOfEmployment	Canada →
educatedAt	Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
employer	University of Toronto →
fieldOfWork	computational complexity theory → computer science → cryptography →
hasAcademicRank	professor →
hasContribution	early development of zero-knowledge proof theory → foundational results in interactive proofs →
hasGender	male →
influenced	modern cryptographic protocol design →
influencedBy	Albert R. Meyer →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
notableFor	formalization of knowledge complexity → work on interactive proof systems → work on zero-knowledge proofs →
notableWork	Interactive proof systems and zero-knowledge → The knowledge complexity of interactive proof systems →
occupation	researcher → university teacher →
researchArea	complexity of cryptographic protocols → probabilistic algorithms → theoretical computer science →
workLocation	Toronto →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Shafi Goldwasser → Silvio Micali →	coAuthor
The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof Systems →	author