Matt Blaze is an expert in computer and network security and one of the world’s leading cryptographers. Blaze holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in computer science from Princeton and an M.S. from Columbia. He earned his bachelor of science summa cum laude from City University of New York. He conducted research in cryptology and security at AT&T Bell Laboratories/AT&T research from September 1992 to December 2003 — with an emphasis on systems and architectural aspects of security and trust in large-scale computing and communication systems.