Markus Kuhn (computer scientist)

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Markus Kuhn
Born Markus Guenther Kuhn
January 1971 (age 53)[1]
Munich, West Germany
Fields Computer science
Computer security
Tamper resistance[2] [3][4][5][6][7]
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Thesis Compromising emanations: eavesdropping risks of computer displays (2002)
Doctoral advisor Ross J. Anderson[8]
Doctoral students Saar Drimer[9]
Gerhard Hancke[10]
Andrew Lewis
Steven Murdoch[11]
Piotr Zieliński[8]
Known for EURion constellation
Website
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25

Markus Guenther Kuhn (born 1971) is a German computer scientist, currently working at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.[12][13][14][15][16]

Education

Kuhn was educated at University of Erlangen (Germany), he received his Master of Science degree at Purdue University and PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Research

Kuhn's main research interests include computer security, in particular the hardware and signal-processing aspects of it, and distributed systems. He is known, among other things, for his work on security microcontrollers, compromising emanations, and distance-bounding protocols. He developed the Stirmark test for digital watermarking schemes, the OTPW one-time password system, and headed the project that extended the X11 misc-fixed fonts to Unicode.

In 1994, as an undergraduate student, he became known for developing several ways to circumvent the VideoCrypt encryption system, most notably the Season7 smartcard emulator.[17]

In 2002, he published a new method for eavesdropping CRT screens.[4]

In 2010 Kuhn was asked to analyze the ADE 651, a device used in Iraq that was said to be a bomb-detecting device; he found that it contained nothing but an anti-theft tag and said that it was "impossible" that the device could detect anything whatsoever.[18]

He is also known for some of his work on international standardization, such as pioneering the introduction of Unicode/UTF-8 under Linux.[19]

Awards and honours

In 1987 and 1988, he won the German national computer-science contest,[20] and in 1989, he won a gold medal for the West German team at the International Olympiad in Informatics.[21][22]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/kuhn-da.pdf
  2. ↑ Markus Kuhn from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
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  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Markus Kuhn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  12. ↑ The Blue Book - "The Computer Laboratory: an Introduction", University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Oct 2006 Archived February 4, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ Markus Kuhn's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  14. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  15. ↑ Markus Kuhn's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  16. ↑ Markus Kuhn's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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  19. ↑ UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
  20. ↑ P. Heyderhoff: Bundeswettbewerb Informatik. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 11, pp. 107-108, Springer-Verlag, 1988
  21. ↑ P. Heyderhoff: Informatik-Olympiade. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 12, p. 235, Springer-Verlag, 1989
  22. ↑ Results of the IOI 1989
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