Bernstein attended Bellport High School, a public high school on Long Island, graduating in 1987 at the age of 15. … See more

The export of cryptography from the United States was controlled as a munition starting from the Cold War until recategorization in 1996, with further relaxation in the late 1990s. In 1995, Bernstein brought the court case … See more

Bernstein designed the Salsa20 stream cipher in 2005 and submitted it to eSTREAM for review and possible standardization. He later published the ChaCha20 variant of Salsa in 2008. In 2005, he proposed the elliptic curve… See more

Starting in the mid-1990s, Bernstein wrote a number of security-aware programs, including qmail, ezmlm, djbdns, ucspi-tcp, daemontools, and publicfile.
Bernstein criticized the leading DNS package at … See more

Bernstein has published a number of papers on mathematics and computation. Many of his papers deal with algorithms or implementations.
In 2001, Bernstein circulated "Circuits for integer fact… See more