George Robert (Bob) Blakley Jr. was an American cryptographer and a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University, best known for inventing a secret sharing scheme in 1979 (see [1]).
[2] Blakley served on the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research from 1993 to 1995.
[2] He co-founded the International Journal of Information Security, published by Springer-Verlag, in 2000,[2][3] and then served on its advisory board.
[4] His son, George Robert (Bob) Blakley III, is also a computer security researcher.
[7] In 2001 Blakley received an honorary doctorate from Queensland University of Technology.