Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known as djb; born October 29, 1971) is an American German[1] mathematician, cryptologist, and computer sci

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Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known as djb; born October 29, 1971) is an American German[1] mathematician, cryptologist, and computer scientist. He is a visiting professor at CASA[2] at Ruhr University Bochum, as well as a research professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before this, he was a professor ("persoonlijk hoogleraar") in the department of mathematics and computer science at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Bernstein attended Bellport High School, a public high school on Long Island, graduating in 1987 at the age of 15.[3] The same year, he ranked fifth in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.[4] In 1987 (at the age of 16), he achieved a Top 10 ranking in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.[5] Bernstein earned a B.A. in mathematics from New York University (1991) and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley (1995), where he studied under Hendrik Lenstra.

The export of cryptography from the United States was controlled as a munition starting from the Cold War until recategorization in 1996, with further relaxation in the late 1990s.[6] In 1995, Bernstein brought the court case Bernstein v. United States. The ruling in the case declared that software was protected speech under the First Amendment, which contributed to regulatory changes reducing controls on encryption.[7] Bernstein was originally represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[8] He later represented himself.[9]

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