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Niels Ferguson was born on 10 December, 1965 in Eindhoven, Netherlands, is a Dutch cryptographer. Discover Niels Ferguson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 10 December, 1965
Birthday 10 December
Birthplace Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nationality Netherlands

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1965

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.

1999

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

2001

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.

2006

In 2006 he published a paper covering some of his work around Bitlocker full disk encryption at Microsoft.

2007

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.

2013

The kleptographic backdoor was confirmed to be real in 2013 as part of the Edward Snowden leaks.

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