4 ms·

In this field (theoretical computer science / math), authors are always listed in alphabetical order. Ran Canetti was alphabetically first on both the paper th

In this field (theoretical computer science / math), authors are always listed in alphabetical order. Ran Canetti was alphabetically first on both the paper that introduced the notion of deniable encryption, as well as on this paper. The main contributor for the current paper was Oxana Poburinnaya. This is not "officially" listed anywhere, but I know all three authors personally, have talked to them about this paper, and I got the impression that Oxana wrote > 200 of these 250 pages.

JulianMorrison 8y ago
See also: the long history in science of the women who did the work getting second billing or none at all.
- DSingularity 8y ago
  Sources? This will be great to motivate daughters.
  - Kliment 8y ago
    Hackaday did a whole series on historical scientists, most of them women. I'd start there. Edit: Here's a direct link https://hackaday.com/category/biography/ https://hackaday.com/category/biography/
  - bjoli 8y ago
    Just Google "women that did not get the nobel prize". Marie Curie only got her first Novel Prize because Pierre Curie refused to accept it unless it was shared with his wife.
  - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
    Off the top of my head, Rosalind Franklin made major contributions to the discovery of DNA, but Watson, Crick, and Wilkins got the Nobel Prize.
    - GTP 8y ago
      Yes, but if I remember correctly, it was because she died before they gave the prize and they have the rule not to give it to dead scientists. To date there should have been only one exception were they gave the prize to someone that died only a few days earlier and they didn't knew it, once they knew they didn't felt like taking the prize back so this should be the only exception.
      - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
        It wasn't just the Nobel, though. Her contribution was largely ignored until quite recently.
slx26 8y ago
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. Anyway, didn't mean to diminish anyone else's work, and I know it's very hard to tell from the outside how much each person contributed.
throwaway_bde 8y ago
I should have added that, more importantly, she also had the key technical "eureka" moment; her contribution was not only to do the writing.

JulianMorrison 8y ago

See also: the long history in science of the women who did the work getting second billing or none at all.

DSingularity 8y ago
Sources? This will be great to motivate daughters.
- Kliment 8y ago
  Hackaday did a whole series on historical scientists, most of them women. I'd start there. Edit: Here's a direct link https://hackaday.com/category/biography/ https://hackaday.com/category/biography/
- bjoli 8y ago
  Just Google "women that did not get the nobel prize". Marie Curie only got her first Novel Prize because Pierre Curie refused to accept it unless it was shared with his wife.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago
  Off the top of my head, Rosalind Franklin made major contributions to the discovery of DNA, but Watson, Crick, and Wilkins got the Nobel Prize.
  - GTP 8y ago
    Yes, but if I remember correctly, it was because she died before they gave the prize and they have the rule not to give it to dead scientists. To date there should have been only one exception were they gave the prize to someone that died only a few days earlier and they didn't knew it, once they knew they didn't felt like taking the prize back so this should be the only exception.
    - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
      It wasn't just the Nobel, though. Her contribution was largely ignored until quite recently.

slx26 8y ago

That's interesting, thanks for sharing. Anyway, didn't mean to diminish anyone else's work, and I know it's very hard to tell from the outside how much each person contributed.

throwaway_bde 8y ago

I should have added that, more importantly, she also had the key technical "eureka" moment; her contribution was not only to do the writing.