David Wagner

For the entomologist, see David L. Wagner

David A. Wagner (

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:

1995 Discovered a flaw in the implementation of SSL in Netscape Navigator (with Ian Goldberg ) {Link without Title} .

1997 Cryptanalyzed the CMEA algorithm used in many U.S. Cellphone s (with Bruce Schneier ).

1998 Development of Twofish Block Cipher as a submission for NIST 's AES Competition (with Bruce Schneier , John Kelsey , Doug Whiting , Chris Hall , and Niels Ferguson ).

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).

1999 Cryptanalysis of Microsoft 's PPTP tunnelling protocol (with Bruce Schneier and " Mudge ").

2000 Cryptanalysis of the A5/1 Stream Cipher used in GSM Cellphone s (with Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir ).

2001 Cryptanalysis of WEP , the security protocol used in 802.11 " WiFi " networks (with Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg ).

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