Nicko van Someren at Kiwicon in Wellington, New Zealand (2012)
Citizenship
British
Alma mater
Trinity College, Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields
Computer Science
Doctoral advisor
Neil Wiseman
Dr. Nicholas Nicko van Someren PhD, FREng, FBCS (born 1967) is a British computer scientist, cryptographer and entrepreneur. He is known for having founded ANT Software, and nCipher, as well as for previous roles as chief security architect at Juniper Networks and chief technology officer at Good Technology and the Linux Foundation, where he ran the Core Infrastructure Initiative.[1] He is currently the chief technology officer at Absolute Software Corporation.
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Dr. Nicholas NickovanSomeren PhD, FREng, FBCS (born 1967) is a British computer scientist, cryptographer and entrepreneur. He is known for having founded...
brother NickovanSomeren. In July 2021 he was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security, succeeding Anthony Finkelstein. VanSomeren was born...
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related to security and surveillance.[citation needed] In addition, Dr. NickovanSomeren found a third key in Windows 2000, which he doubted had a legitimate...
agency to subvert any Windows user's security. Also researcher Dr. NickovanSomeren discovered these cryptographic keys and a third key in the ADVAPI...
by having the power removed. Statistical key finding was used by NickovanSomeren to locate the signature verification keys used by Microsoft to validate...
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