Sivaramakrishnan Rajagopalan

Sivaramakrishnan Rajagopalan is a co-holder of a patent for a provably secure, high-speed, block-cipher accelerator called VRA. He holds, in addition to the VRA patent, another patent for an efficient, data-compression technique. This algorithm is being used by phone companies to compress logging data on telephony networks. Rajagopalan is also actively involved in making VRA a useful product for consumer applications. In 1995, he, along with some collaborators, found security flaws in firewalls, which could be exploited by Java programs. This attack was widely reported and has influenced security administrators strongly on the dangers that downloaded executable content pose for protected networks. He has published in the fields of Cryptography, Data Compression, Internet Security, and Complexity Theory.