Martin E. Hellman

24.2k citations

55 papers · 12.6k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 25

Impact in

Artificial Intelligence top 0.05%
- Cryptography and Data Security
- Cryptographic Implementations and Security
- Coding theory and cryptography
Computer Networks and Communications top 0.1%
- Advanced Authentication Protocols Security
- Security in Wireless Sensor Networks

Papers in

Artificial Intelligence 36
- Cryptographic Implementations and Security 14
- Coding theory and cryptography 12
- Cryptography and Data Security 10
- Machine Learning and Algorithms 8
- Algorithms and Data Compression 6
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 22
- Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption 21

Co-authors: Whitfield Diffie S. Leung-Yan-Cheong S.C. Pohlig Ralph C. Merkle Jonathan Greene Ehud D. Karnin Thomas M. Cover J. Raviv
Journals: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (20 papers)Communications of the ACM (4 papers)Scientific American (1 paper)Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1 paper)IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States

In The Last Decade

Martin E. Hellman

52 papers receiving 11.0k citations

Hit Papers

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An improved algorithm for computing logarithms overGF(p)and its cryptographic significance (Corresp.) 1978 · 578 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1978 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1978 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1976 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	An overview of public key cryptography IEEE Communications Magazine ·Martin E. Hellman	2002	104
2	Breakthrough : emerging new thinking : Soviet and Western scholars issue a challenge to build a world beyond war Mathew Aggerholm, Martin E. Hellman	1987	2
3	Commercial encryption IEEE Network ·Martin E. Hellman	1987	4
4	Beyond war: implications for computer security and encryption Martin E. Hellman	1984	1
5	The largest super-increasing subset of a random set IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·Ehud D. Karnin, Martin E. Hellman	1983	0
6	Cryptographic Key Size Issues. Martin E. Hellman	1982	1
7	Drainage and the DES. Martin E. Hellman, Hee-Jung Baika	1982	3
8	On the Necessity of Exhaustive Search for System-Invariant Cryptanalysis. Martin E. Hellman, Ehud D. Karnin, Hee-Jung Baika	1981	0
9	Another cryptanalytic attack on “A cryptosystem for multiple communication” Information Processing Letters ·Martin E. Hellman	1981	1
10	On the Difficulty of Computing Logarithms Over GF (q^m) Martin E. Hellman	1980	1
11	The Mathematics of Public-Key Cryptography Scientific American ·Martin E. Hellman	1979	37
12	Convolutional encoding for Wyner's wiretap channel (Corresp.) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·Erik I. Verriest, Martin E. Hellman	1979	3
13	Hiding information and signatures in trapdoor knapsacks IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·Ralph C. Merkle, Martin E. Hellman	1978	366
14	Optimal finite memory learning algorithms for the finite sample problem Information and Control ·Thomas M. Cover, Jiuberth Jiménez Mora, Martin E. Hellman	1976	11
15	New directions in cryptography IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·Whitfield Diffie, Martin E. Hellman Hit paper breakdown →	1976	7667
16	On tree coding with a fidelity criterion IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·C. Davis, Martin E. Hellman	1975	24
17	On Using Natural Redundancy for Error Detection IRE Transactions on Communications Systems ·Martin E. Hellman	1974	13
18	Hypothesis testing with finite memory in finite time (Corresp.) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·A Shuttleworth, Martin E. Hellman	1972	8
19	The Nearest Neighbor Classification Rule with a Reject Option Martin E. Hellman	1970	114
20	Probability of error, equivocation, and the Chernoff bound IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·Martin E. Hellman, J. Raviv	1970	214

About Martin E. Hellman

Martin E. Hellman is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Statistics and Probability, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Management Science and Operations Research, having authored 55 papers that have together received 12.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption (21 papers), Cryptographic Implementations and Security (14 papers), Coding theory and cryptography (12 papers), Cryptography and Data Security (10 papers), Machine Learning and Algorithms (8 papers), DNA and Biological Computing (7 papers), Wireless Communication Security Techniques (6 papers) and Algorithms and Data Compression (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Artificial Intelligence (8.1k citations), Computer Networks and Communications (5.0k citations), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (3.5k citations), Information Systems (3.7k citations) and Computational Theory and Mathematics (1.2k citations). Martin E. Hellman has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Whitfield Diffie, S. Leung-Yan-Cheong, S.C. Pohlig, Ralph C. Merkle, Jonathan Greene, Ehud D. Karnin, Thomas M. Cover, J. Raviv, Ronald L. Rivest and John Anderson. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Communications of the ACM, Scientific American, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

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