Anna Johnston

Anna Johnston is a cryptographic researcher at Juniper Networks with over 30 years of experience in government (NSA), academia (Washington State University, Johns Hopkins University, Dublin City University), national laboratories (Sandia National Labs, Institute for Defense Analyses, Claude Shannon Institute) and industry (Raytheon, Juniper), in the US and overseas. Throughout her career she worked between the mathematical and computer science areas of cryptography. Her research includes finding and proving new hard problems for the foundations of cryptographic algorithms, designing new techniques for generating and exchanging 'provable primes', and creating new algorithms for error correction. She is particularly interested in the interaction of error correction codes and data compression on encryption. Dr. Johnston holds a PhD in Mathematical Cryptography from the University of London (RHUL), a Masters in Operations Research from George Washington University.