Dan Boneh is an Israeli-American professor in applied cryptography and computer security at Stanford University. He heads the applied cryptography group within the Computer Science department, focusing his research on applications of cryptography to computer security. His work encompasses cryptosystems with novel properties, web security, cryptography for blockchains, and cryptanalysis. He is the author of over two hundred publications in the field.
Born in Israel in 1969, Boneh earned his Ph.