Niels Ferguson
Niels T. Ferguson (born 10 December 1965,
AES finalist block cipher algorithm Twofish as well as the stream cipher Helix and the Skein hash function
.
In 1999, Niels Ferguson, together with
Cryptographically-Secure Pseudorandom Number Generator (CSPRNG). Yarrow was later further developed by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier into the Fortuna
CSPRNG
In 2001, he claimed to have broken the
Blu-ray Discs players, similar to the DVDs Content Scramble System, but has not published his research, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
of 1998, which would make such publication illegal.
In 2006 he published a paper covering some of his work around
Bitlocker full disk encryption at Microsoft.[1]
At the CRYPTO 2007 conference rump session,
kleptographic backdoor in the NIST specified Dual_EC_DRBG cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. The kleptographic backdoor was confirmed to be real in 2013 as part of the Edward Snowden
leaks.
References
External links
- Short bio at the ORD-GROUP site.
- Ferguson chooses not to publish his results because he fears being prosecuted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- On the Possibility of a Back Door in the NIST SP800-90 Dual Ec Prng
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