Editing List of cryptographers (section)

===Symmetric-key algorithm inventors===
* [[Ross J. Anderson|Ross Anderson]], UK, [[University of Cambridge]], co-inventor of the [[Serpent (cipher)|Serpent]] cipher.
* [[Paulo S. L. M. Barreto]], Brazilian, [[University of São Paulo]], co-inventor of the [[Whirlpool (algorithm)|Whirlpool hash function]].
* [[George Blakley]], US, independent inventor of [[secret sharing]].
* [[Eli Biham]], Israel, co-inventor of the [[Serpent (cipher)|Serpent]] cipher.
* [[Don Coppersmith]], co-inventor of [[Data Encryption Standard|DES]] and [[MARS (cryptography)|MARS]] ciphers.
* [[Joan Daemen]], Belgian, [[Radboud University]], co-developer of [[Rijndael]] which became the [[Advanced Encryption Standard]] (AES), and [[Keccak]] which became [[SHA-3]].
* [[Horst Feistel]], German, [[IBM]], namesake of [[Feistel network]]s and [[Lucifer (cipher)|Lucifer]] cipher.
* [[Lars Knudsen]], [[Denmark]], co-inventor of the [[Serpent (cipher)|Serpent]] cipher.
* [[Ralph Merkle]], US, inventor of [[Merkle tree]]s.
* [[Bart Preneel]], Belgian, [[KU Leuven]], co-inventor of [[RIPEMD-160]].
* [[Vincent Rijmen]], Belgian, [[KU Leuven]], co-developer of [[Rijndael]] which became the [[Advanced Encryption Standard]] (AES).
* [[Ron Rivest|Ronald L. Rivest]], US, [[MIT]], inventor of [[RC5|RC cipher series]] and [[MD5|MD algorithm series]].
* [[Bruce Schneier]], US, inventor of [[Blowfish (cipher)|Blowfish]] and co-inventor of [[Twofish]] and [[Threefish]].
* [[Xuejia Lai]], CH, co-inventor of [[International Data Encryption Algorithm]] (IDEA).
* [[Adi Shamir]], Israel, [[Weizmann Institute]], inventor of [[secret sharing]].
* [[Walter Tuchman]]. US. led the [[Data Encryption Standard de]]velopment team at IBM and inventor of [[Triple DES]]