X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Michael Luby


Broadcast encryption

Luby and Staddon have used a combinatorial approach to study the trade-offs for some general classes of broadcast encryption algorithms.

Michael Luby

In 1998 Luby left ICSI to found the Digital Fountain company, and shortly thereafter in 1998 he invented the LT codes, the first practical fountain codes.


Leftover hash lemma

The leftover hash lemma is a lemma in cryptography first stated by Russell Impagliazzo, Leonid Levin, and Michael Luby.


see also

Rathcannon, County Tipperary

William Grace, Thomas Keogh, Michael Treacy, Thomas Maher, Michael Luby and James Daniel who had changed their pleas to guilty were also sentenced to death but an express messenger arrived from the Marquis of Anglesea, the Lord Lieutenant, with an order to commuting their execution to transportation.