Creator of #bitcoin ?

Tatsuaki Okamoto is a Japanese cryptographer and computer scientist. He is a Fellow of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and the Director of the NTT Cryptography and Information Security Laboratories. He is also a guest professor at Kyoto University.

Okamoto has made significant contributions to the field of cryptography, including the development of new public-key cryptosystems, digital signature schemes, and identification schemes. He is also a pioneer in the field of functional encryption, which allows users to encrypt data in a way that only allows them to perform specific operations on the data, without revealing the data itself.

Okamoto has received numerous awards for his work, including the IEICE Best Achievement Award, the Research Achievement Awards of NTT, the Distinguished services of research award from Science and Technology Agency, Japan, the Telecomm technology award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, Japan, the NTT R&D Fellow, the Technology award from Nikkei-BP Press, the IEICE Fellow, the Certicom ECC Technology Award, the METI Award, the IACR Distinguished Lecturer, the IISEC Information Security Cultural Award, the IEICE Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award, the JSIAM Fellow, the Medal with Purple Ribbon, the IACR Fellow, the IEICE Paper Award, the RSA Conference Award, the JSIAM Achievement Award, and the Asahi Prize.

Okamoto is a highly respected figure in the field of cryptography and his work has had a significant impact on the development of new cryptographic protocols and applications.