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Alan T. Sherman, an American computer scientist, cryptographer, and full professor of computer science at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. under Ronald L. Rivest at MIT in 1981 and 1987 repectively. His research interests include high-integrity voting systems, information assurance, cryptology, and discrete algorithms. Alan Sherman has been the faculty advisor of the UMBC Chess Club since 1991.

=Selected Publications=

1982 ...

 * Ronald L. Rivest, Alan T. Sherman (1982). Randomized Encryption Techniques. CRYPTO 1982
 * Alan T. Sherman (1986). Cryptology and VLSI - Part I: Detecting and Exploiting Algebraic Weaknesses in Cryptosystems. Ph.D. thesis
 * Alan T. Sherman (1986). Cryptology and VLSI - Part II: Algorithms for Placing Modules on a Custom VLSI Chip. Ph.D. thesis, MIT, advisor Ronald L. Rivest
 * Burton S. Kaliski Jr., Ronald L. Rivest, Alan T. Sherman (1988). Is the Data Encryption Standard a group? (Results of cycling experiments on DES). Journal of Cryptology, Vol. 1
 * Alan T. Sherman (1989). VLSI Placement and Routing: The PI Project. Springer

1990 ...

 * Alan T. Sherman (1991). On Superpolylogarithlnic Subexponential Functions (Part I). ACM SIGACT News
 * Bradley Kuszmaul, Alan Sherman (1995). *Socrates 2.0 Beats Grandmaster Sagalchik. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 » Star Socrates
 * Thomas R. Cain, Alan T. Sherman (1997). How to Break Gifford's Cipher. Cryptologia, Vol. 21, No. 3
 * Muhammad Rabi, Alan T. Sherman (1997). An observation on associative one-way functions in complexity theory. Information Processing Letters, Vol. 64, No. 5

2000 ...

 * Alan T. Sherman, David A. McGrew (2003). Key Establishment in Large Dynamic Groups Using One-Way Function Trees. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 29, No. 5
 * Kevin Fisher, Richard Carback, Alan T. Sherman (2006). Punchscan: Introduction and System Definition of a High-Integrity Election System. pdf

=External Links=
 * Alan T. Sherman (Home Page)
 * Alan T. Sherman
 * Alan Sherman from Wikipedia
 * Alan Sherman - The Mathematics Genealogy Project
 * Alan T. Sherman‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬
 * How to Select a College Chess Team‬

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