Noah R. Luther

Noah R. Luther is a cryptographic engineer and member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He has worked in the Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Group since 2017. He started his career building a software library for secure multiparty computation (MPC). He has built test beds for evaluation of advanced cryptographic software prototypes for the DARPA SIEVE and IARPA HECTOR programs. He was the designer and lead instructor of the inaugural Beaver Works Summer Institute Cyber Security course, led by Lincoln Laboratory staff, which teaches cybersecurity to high school students. Presently, Luther leads efforts investigating the deployment of advanced cryptography and its abuse in cryptovirology.

Luther received an MS degree in computer science from Virginia Institute of Technology in 2017. His research involved designing anonymity-preserving authentication schemes and implementing those schemes using the Trusted Platform Module. He received BS degrees in computer science and mathematics from Virginia Tech in 2016.