Niels Ferguson is a Dutch cryptographic engineer and consultant who currently works for Microsoft. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Cryptography (or cryptology; from Greek grc κρυπτός kryptos, "hidden secret" and grc γράφω gráphō, "I write" An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of Engineering. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer He has worked with others, including Bruce Schneier, designing cryptographic algorithms, testing algorithms and protocols, and writing papers and books. Bruce Schneier (born 15 January 1963) is an American Cryptographer, Computer security specialist and Writer. Among the designs Ferguson has contributed to is the AES finalist block cipher algorithm Twofish as well as the stream cipher Helix. In Cryptography, Twofish is a symmetric key Block cipher with a block size of 128 Bits and Key sizes up to 256 bits A helix (pl helixes or helices) from the Greek word έλιξ, is a special kind of Space curve, i
In 1999 Niels Ferguson together with Bruce Schneier and John Kelsey developed the Yarrow algorithm random number generator. Bruce Schneier (born 15 January 1963) is an American Cryptographer, Computer security specialist and Writer. John Kelsey is a Cryptographer currently working at NIST. His research interests include Cryptanalysis and design of Symmetric cryptography The Yarrow algorithm is a Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. Yarrow was later developed by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier into the Fortuna (PRNG) random number generator. Fortuna is a Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (PRNG devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson.
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. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection ( HDCP) is a form of digital Copy protection developed by Intel Corporation to prevent copying of digital audio not insert the publicly disclosed HD DVD key into this article for the time being DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is Content Scramble System ( CSS) is a Digital Rights Management (DRM scheme used on almost all commercially produced DVD -Video discs The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA is a United States Copyright Law which implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar)
At the CRYPTO 2007 conference rump session, Niels Ferguson and Dan Shumow presented an informal paper describing a weakness in the NIST specified Dual_EC_DRBG PRNG. Dual_EC_DRBG is a controversial Pseudorandom number generator (PRNG designed and published by the National Security Agency. A pseudorandom number generator ( PRNG) is an Algorithm for generating a sequence of numbers that approximates the properties of random numbers
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