Lowell Frazer

Dr. Lowell K. (Jim) Frazer was a mathematician who worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) in the field of cryptography.

As a result of his efforts, all cryptography used for classified applications by the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community is now subject to rigorous scientific evaluation.

During this two-year tour, he performed assessments of many cryptographic systems, designed speech cryptosystems, and discovered an analytic technique that would be widely used over the next three decades.

He continued to lead the adaptation and extension of those standards as the role of cryptography grew from COMSEC to a more diverse mission.

Dr. Frazer played a major role in developing NSA’s mathematics, cryptanalysis and Information Assurance (IA) communities.

He was a member of the Mathematics, Cryptanalysis, and COMSEC Career Panels, and an Advisor to the NSA Technical Journal for approximately 20 years.

For the next 20 years he was active in advancing the technology of information assurance for clients with unusually high levels of risk.