Taher Elgamal

Taher Elgamal is an Egyptian cryptographer and entrepreneur. He has served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Security at Salesforce since 2013. Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of Securify and the director of engineering at RSA Security. From 1995 to 1998, he was the chief scientist at Netscape Communications. He has been described as the "father of SSL" for the work he did in computer security while working at Netscape, which helped in establishing a private and secure communications on the Internet.

18 August 1955

Born on the same birth date (18 August 1955): Bruce Benedict

Born on the same birth day (18 August): Brian Michael Bendis • Burleigh Grimes • Didier Auriol • Enoch Light • Geoff Courtnall • Hans van Mierlo • Lucienne Boyer • Mike LaValliere • Romain Maes • Tan Dun

Born in the same month (August 1955): Agnes Chan • Caleb Carr • Chiranjeevi • Diana Scarwid • Hideo Fukuyama • Jack Lew • Jim Mees • Marc Bureau (politician) • Mel Tiangco • Michael Roe (racing driver) • Patricia Scotland • Paul Greengrass • Vladimir Sorokin