Phillip Rogaway rogaway@cs.ucdavis.edu Kemper #3009 · One Shields Ave University of California Davis CA 95616 USA Emails claiming to be me and saying I have part-time positions for a research assistant are fraudulent. Please mark any such email you get as spam. I’m a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. I have also been a visiting professor at a bunch of places, including many years at Chiang Mai University (TH) and extended stays at Chulalongkorn University (TH), ENS Paris (FR), ETH Zürich (CH), and the Isaac Newton Institute (UK).

Most of my research has been on cryptography, the mathematical treatment of secure communication. I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley and my Ph.D. at MIT, in the Theory of Computation group, where I studied under Silvio Micali. After graduating I worked at IBM as a security architect (1991), then came to UCD (1994), where I’ve spent the majority of my time since. My research has focused on obtaining provably good solutions to protocol problems of utility to people’s privacy and security. I’ve been lucky enough to get some nice recognition for this work, including the Levchin prize (2016), PET Award (2015), IACR Fellow (2012), ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (2009), and the RSA Award in Mathematics (2003).

In recent years I have grown increasingly skeptical of the claimed benefits of CS, which routinely seem dwarfed by the harms we help cause. Correspondingly, I have shifted much of my attention to social and ethical issues connected to technology, especially the climate crisis and the problem of mass surveillance. I shifted much of my university teaching to ethics (course ECS 188). I support social justice and environmental movements like BLM and XR. I will officially retire from UCD in 2024; my ecs120.spring23 students inspired me to hang on for one more year, teaching ecs127 and an ecs189 on Black Mirror in Spring 2024. In general, my views are by now quite heretical for CS, which can be uncomfortable on all sides.

• Personal Zoom meeting room: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/4778298788
• Current teaching: not teaching this term.
• All classes taught
• Recent notes: On Being a Computer Scientist Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) · Cancelling my Spring 2020 teaching
• CV and merit statements
• DBLP list of my paper · Google Scholar list of my papers · Personal list of my papers
• An old research summary
• Funding
• My grad students
• Random advice for our undergraduate majors
• Cryptographic schemes of mine in common use: AEZ · CMAC · DHIES · EME2 · FF1 · OAEP · OCB · PSS · UMAC · XTS
• Consulting

• The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (2015)
• Reimagining Secret Sharing: Creating a Safer and More Versatile Primitive by Adding Authenticity, Correcting Errors, and Reducing Randomness Requirements (2020)
• Security of Symmetric Encryption Against Mass Surveillance (with Mihir Bellare and Kenny Paterson) (2014)
  
• An open letter from US researchers in cryptography and information security (2014) (media coverage)
• IACR’s Copenhagen Resolution (the professional organization for cryptographers) (2014)
• Statement of condemnation of U.S. mass-surveillance programs, and a reminder of our ethical responsibilities as computer scientists (2013)

Personal information: my wife is Bongkotrattana Lailert. She goes by Kot. My son, Banlu Rogaway, age 13, is a top youth rock climber in the US. These days I spend much of my time taking him climbing. I have lived in many countries around the world, but am most at home in Thailand and the USA. For the last two or three years, as my mother’s health declined, I split my time between Davis, California and Portland, Oregon. My sister also lives in Portland, where she helps students navigate college admissions.