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| Levchin Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | “major innovations in cryptography that have had a significant impact on the practice of cryptography and its use in real-world systems” |
| Sponsored by | Max Levchin |
| Presented by | Real World Crypto steering committee |
| Reward(s) | $10,000 |
| First award | 2016-01-06 |
| Website | rwc |
TheLevchin Prize for real-world cryptography is a prize given to people or organizations who are recognized for contributions tocryptography that have a significant impact on its practical use. The recipients are selected by thesteering committee of theReal World Crypto (RWC) academic conference run by theInternational Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and announced at the RWC conference.[1]
The award was established in 2015 byMax Levchin, a software engineer and businessman who co-founded the financial technology companyPayPal, and first awarded in January 2016.[1][2][3][4][5]
Two awards are presented every year, each on its own topic. While there is no formal rule, as of 2024 one of the two awards has recognized one or more individuals fortheoretical advancements to cryptographic methods with a practical impact, while the other has recognized one or more individuals or an organization for either theconstruction of practical systems or practical advancements incryptanalysis.
The following table lists the recipients of the Levchin Prize.[6]
| Year | Recipient(s) | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Phil Rogaway | “For groundbreaking practice-oriented research that has had exceptional impact on real-world cryptography.” This includes work onauthenticated encryption andformat-preserving encryption. |
| 2016 | The miTLS team: Cedric Fournet, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Alfredo Pironti, and Markulf Kohlweiss | “For the analysis ofTLS and the development of themiTLS project.” |
| 2017 | Joan Daemen | “For the development ofAES andSHA3.” |
| 2017 | Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin | “For the development and wide deployment of theSignal protocol.” |
| 2018 | Hugo Krawczyk | “For the development of real-world cryptographic systems with strong security guarantees and proofs.” This includes work onIPsec,IKE,SSL/TLS,HMAC andHKDF. |
| 2018 | TheOpenSSL team | “For dramatic improvements to the code quality of OpenSSL.” |
| 2019 | Mihir Bellare | “For outstanding contributions to the design and analysis of real-world cryptosystems, including the development of therandom oracle model,modes of operation,HMAC, and models forkey exchange.” |
| 2019 | Eric Rescorla | “For sustained contributions to the standardization of security protocols, and most recently the development and standardization ofTLS 1.3.” Other work includes earlier versions ofTLS andDTLS,WebRTC,ACME andQUIC, as well as co-foundingLet's Encrypt. |
| 2020 | Ralph Merkle | “For fundamental contributions to the development ofpublic key cryptography,hash algorithms,Merkle trees, anddigital signatures.” |
| 2020 | Xiaoyun Wang and Marc Stevens | “For groundbreaking work on the security ofcollision resistanthash functions.” |
| 2021 | Neal Koblitz andVictor Miller | “For the invention ofelliptic curve cryptography.” |
| 2021 | The Tor Project | “For continued development of theTor system and the underlying cryptography.” |
| 2022 | Don Coppersmith | “For foundational innovations in cryptanalysis.” |
| 2022 | Let's Encrypt | “For fundamental improvements to thecertificate ecosystem that provide freecertificates for all.” |
| 2023 | Vincent Rijmen | “For co-designing theAdvanced Encryption Standard (AES).” |
| 2023 | Paul Kocher | “For pioneering work onside channel analysis.” |
| 2024 | Anna Lysyanskaya andJan Camenisch | “For the development of efficientAnonymous Credentials” |
| 2024 | Al Cutter, Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, andBen Laurie | “For creating and deployingCertificate Transparency at scale” |
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