Eran Tromer

Eran Tromer (Hebrew: ערן טרומר) is a professor of computer science at Boston University. His research focuses on information security, cryptography and algorithms.^[1][2] He is a founding scientist of Zcash.^[1][3]

Biography

Tromer received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science.^[1] In 2024, he joined Boston University's Hariri Institute for Computing.^[2]

Research

In 2014, Tromer and his colleagues demonstrated an RSA key extraction attack using acoustic cryptanalysis, a type of side-channel attack.^[4][3]

In 2014, Tromer coauthored the design of Zerocash,^[5] which laid the foundation for the Zcash protocol. The work was recognized by the Test of Time Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.^[6]

Awards

• ACM CCS The Test-of-Time Award (2019)^[7]
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award (2024)^[6][8]