[3] His main areas of research span cryptography and information security,[4] with an emphasis on the design, analysis and use of cryptographic protocols.
[5] He then completed his post-doctoral training at the Lab of Computer Science, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1996 under the supervision of Prof. Shafi Goldwasser.
Prominent contributions include the Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC),[6] the definition of which was first published in 1996 in a paper by Mihir Bellare, Ran Canetti, and Hugo Krawczyk, and the formulation of the Universally Composable Security framework, which allows analyzing security of cryptographic protocols in a modular and robust way.
He was also the Program Committee chair for the Theory of Cryptography Conference (2008) and for eight years was the co-chair of the Multicast Security Working Group at the Internet Engineering Task Force (2000-2008).
Ran Canetti's Full List of Publications (1990-2018)[30] His research interests span multiple aspects of cryptography and information security, with emphasis on the design, analysis and use of cryptographic protocols.