David Wagner - Biography

Change Image Last Editor: igende				David Wagner Biography -   Name : David Wagner Profession : Actor Born : 1974 Residence : Berkeley, California, USA Occupation : Professor, UCB Known for : cryptanalysis, cipher design

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For the entomologist, see David L. Wagner David A. Wagner (1974) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in cryptography and computer security. He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee, tasked with assisting the EAC in drafting the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. Wagner received an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1995, an M.S. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 2000. He has published two books and over 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His notable achievements include: 1995 Discovered a flaw in the implementation of SSL in Netscape Navigator (with Ian Goldberg) . 1997 Cryptanalyzed the CMEA algorithm used in many U.S. cellphones (with Bruce Schneier). 1998 Development of Twofish block cipher as a submission for NIST's AES competition (with Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, Doug Whiting, Chris Hall, and Niels Ferguson). 1999 Invention of the slide attack, a new form of cryptanalysis (with Alex Biryukov); also the boomerang attack and mod n cryptanalysis (the latter with Bruce Schneier and John Kelsey). 1999 Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's PPTP tunnelling protocol (with Bruce Schneier and "Mudge"). 2000 Cryptanalysis of the A5/1 stream cipher used in GSM cellphones (with Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir). 2001 Cryptanalysis of WEP, the security protocol used in 802.11 "WiFi" networks (with Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg). References ^ a b David Wagner biography, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology External links Professor Wagner's home page David Wagner election research papers Some of Wagner's publications Interview and biography Another interview NewPP limit report Preprocessor node count: 1052/1000000 Post-expand include size: 8592/2048000 bytes Template argument size: 2305/2048000 bytes Expensive parser function count: 0/500 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wagner" Categories: 1974 births | Living people | Computer scientists | Election technology | Modern cryptographers | Computer security specialists | University of California, Berkeley faculty Views Article Discussion