David A. Wagner
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| David A. Wagner | |
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| Born | 1974 |
| Residence | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Occupation | Professor, University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | cryptanalysis, cipher design, electronic voting |
| Website | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/ |
David A. Wagner (born 1974) is a 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. He is also a member of the ACCURATE project.
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:
- 2007 Served as Principal Investigator for the source code review and also the documentation review of the historic California state Top-to-Bottom review of electronic voting systems certified for use. Flaws found with vendor-supplied voting machines resulted in decertification and provisional recertification by the Secretary of State.
- 2001 Cryptanalysis of WEP, the security protocol used in 802.11 "WiFi" networks (with Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg).
- 2000 Cryptanalysis of the A5/1 stream cipher used in GSM cellphones (with Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir).
- 1999 Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's PPTP tunnelling protocol (with Bruce Schneier and "Mudge").
- 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).
- 1998 Development of Twofish block cipher, which was a finalist for NIST's Advanced Encryption Standard competition (with Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, Doug Whiting, Chris Hall, and Niels Ferguson).
- 1997 Cryptanalyzed the CMEA algorithm used in many U.S. cellphones (with Bruce Schneier).
- 1995 Discovered a flaw in the implementation of SSL in Netscape Navigator (with Ian Goldberg).[1]
References
- ↑ Netscape SSL implementation cracked, news posting to hks.lists.cypherpunks on 18 Sep 1995
External links
- Professor Wagner's home page
- David Wagner election research papers
- Some of Wagner's publications
- Interview and biography at the Wayback Machine (archived February 3, 2004)
- Another interview
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- Modern cryptographers
- Princeton University alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- People associated with computer security
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
- American computer scientists
- Election technology people
