GoCIT Famous People in Cybersecurity

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Across
  1. 2. The 'S' in RSA encryption and co-inventor of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
  2. 4. The 'A' in RSA encryption; cryptography pioneer.
  3. 5. Former Chief Security Officer at Facebook and vocal advocate for digital privacy.
  4. 8. Pioneer of public key cryptography and co-creator of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm.
  5. 10. The 'R' in RSA encryption; helped develop one of the most widely used encryption algorithms.
Down
  1. 1. Discovered a major DNS vulnerability in 2008 that shook the internet.
  2. 3. Real name of Mudge, testified to Congress about cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
  3. 6. Cryptographer and author of "Applied Cryptography"; widely known security expert.
  4. 7. Father of modern computing; his work laid the groundwork for cryptography and codebreaking.
  5. 9. Once the world's most wanted hacker, later became a cybersecurity consultant.