Tanja Lange is a German cryptographer and number theorist at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
[1][2] Lange earned a diploma in mathematics in 1998 from the Technical University of Braunschweig.
Her dissertation, jointly supervised by Gerhard Frey and YoungJu Choie, concerned Efficient Arithmetic on Hyperelliptic Curves.
[6] She is also the coordinator of PQCRYPTO, a European multi-university consortium to make electronic communications future-proof against threats such as quantum factorization.
[1] She is one of the main authors of The Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography, published in 2005.