For persons of a similar name, see Neil Ferguson (disambiguation).
Niels T. Ferguson (born 10 December 1965, Eindhoven) is a Dutch cryptographer and consultant who currently works for Microsoft. He has worked with others, including Bruce Schneier, designing cryptographic algorithms, testing algorithms and protocols, and writing papers and books. Among the designs Ferguson has contributed to is the AES finalist block cipher algorithm Twofish as well as the stream cipher Helix and the Skein hash function.
In 1999, Niels Ferguson, together with Bruce Schneier and John Kelsey, developed the Yarrow algorithm, a 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 HDCP system that is incorporated into HD DVD and 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, Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson presented an informal paper describing a potential 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.
Niels T. Ferguson (born 10 December 1965, Eindhoven) is a Dutch cryptographer and consultant who currently works for Microsoft. He has worked with others...
Schneier, John Kelsey, Doug Whiting, David Wagner, Chris Hall, and NielsFerguson: the "extended Twofish team" met to perform further cryptanalysis of...
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Microsoft to get one introduced. Microsoft developer and cryptographer NielsFerguson denied the backdoor request and said, "over my dead body". Microsoft...
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Cryptanalytic Attacks on RSA. Springer, 2007. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-387-48741-0. NielsFerguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno (2010). "Cryptography Engineering:...
initially not aware of the potential backdoor, until Dan Shumow and NielsFerguson's publication, or of Certicom's Daniel R. L. Brown and Scott Vanstone's...
free to use in software not developed and not sold inside the U.S. NielsFerguson pointed out collision attacks on OCB, which limits the amount of data...
with CBC, CTR mode is one of two block cipher modes recommended by NielsFerguson and Bruce Schneier. CTR mode was introduced by Whitfield Diffie and...
direction). CCM mode was designed by Russ Housley, Doug Whiting and NielsFerguson. At the time CCM mode was developed, Russ Housley was employed by RSA...
number generators (CSPRNG) devised by John Kelsey, Bruce Schneier, and NielsFerguson and published in 1999. The Yarrow algorithm is explicitly unpatented...
employees Dan Shumow and NielsFerguson made a public presentation about the backdoor in 2007. Commenting on Shumow and Ferguson's presentation, prominent...
feared by some, but the law, nonetheless, remains a controversial one. NielsFerguson, a well-respected cryptography researcher, has publicly stated that...
Felten and students at Princeton), and security consultants such as NielsFerguson, who has declined to publish information about vulnerabilities he discovered...
Threefish and the Skein hash function were designed by Bruce Schneier, NielsFerguson, Stefan Lucks, Doug Whiting, Mihir Bellare, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jon Callas...
Related-key attack. Matt Blaze, US. Dan Boneh, US, Stanford University. NielsFerguson, Netherlands, co-inventor of Twofish and Fortuna. Ian Goldberg, Canada...
slightly modified form of an earlier cipher, Helix, published in 2003 by NielsFerguson, Doug Whiting, Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, Stefan Lucks, and Tadayoshi...
Research. At the CRYPTO 2007 conference rump session, Dan Shumow and NielsFerguson presented an informal paper describing a kleptographic backdoor in the...
chilling to legitimate users; such as security consultants including NielsFerguson, who declined to publish vulnerabilities he discovered in Intel's secure-computing...
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