Bruce Schneier
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American computer scientist, (1963 - ), New York, New York
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society as of November, 2013. He is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Now, and The Tor Project; and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the author of several books on general security topics, computer security and cryptography and is a squid enthusiast.
Bruce Schneier's Published Works
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Published Works
- Applied cryptography - protocols, algorithms, and source code in C, 2nd Edition (1993) (1934)
- Fast Software Encryption (2001) (1389)
- Description of a New Variable-Length Key, 64-bit Block Cipher (Blowfish) (1993) (981)
- Applied cryptography (2nd ed.): protocols, algorithms, and source code in C (1995) (889)
- Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (2000) (673)
- Practical cryptography (2003) (621)
- Analysis of the SSL 3.0 protocol (1996) (503)
- Improved Cryptanalysis of Rijndael (2000) (470)
- Side Channel Cryptanalysis of Product Ciphers (1998) (457)
- Beyond fear - thinking sensibly about security in an uncertain world (2003) (454)
- Twofish : A 128-bit block cipher (1998) (445)
- Secure audit logs to support computer forensics (1999) (442)
- Second Preimages on n-bit Hash Functions for Much Less than 2n Work (2005) (364)
- Cryptography Engineering - Design Principles and Practical Applications (2010) (356)
- The psychology of security (2007) (346)
- Key-Schedule Cryptanalysis of IDEA, G-DES, GOST, SAFER, and Triple-DES (1996) (282)
- Cryptographic Support for Secure Logs on Untrusted Machines (1998) (281)
- Ten Risks of PKI (2004) (278)
- Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators (1998) (276)
- Inside risks: the uses and abuses of biometrics (1999) (267)
- Related-key cryptanalysis of 3-WAY, Biham-DES, CAST, DES-X, NewDES, RC2, and TEA (1997) (260)
- Two-factor authentication: too little, too late (2005) (240)
- One-way hash functions (1991) (230)
- The Twofish encryption algorithm: a 128-bit block cipher (1999) (227)
- Unbalanced Feistel Networks and Block Cipher Design (1996) (221)
- Amplified Boomerang Attacks Against Reduced-Round MARS and Serpent (2000) (220)
- Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security. A Report by an Ad Hoc Group of Cryptographers and Computer Scientists (1996) (206)
- Environmental Key Generation Towards Clueless Agents (1998) (206)
- Helix: Fast Encryption and Authentication in a Single Cryptographic Primitive (2003) (190)
- A Cryptographic Evaluation of IPsec (1999) (189)
- Applied cryptography, second edition : protocols, algorithms,and source code in C (2015) (182)
- The risks of key recovery, key escrow, and trusted third-party encryption (1997) (179)
- Toward a secure system engineering methodolgy (1998) (168)
- Protocol Interactions and the Chosen Protocol Attack (1997) (162)
- Cryptographic Design Vulnerabilities (1998) (152)
- Secrets and Lies (2004) (140)
- Yarrow-160: Notes on the Design and Analysis of the Yarrow Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number Generator (1999) (131)
- Protecting secret keys with personal entropy (2000) (121)
- Secure Applications of Low-Entropy Keys (1997) (121)
- Performance Comparison of the AES Submissions (1999) (115)
- MODELING SECURITY THREATS (1999) (107)
- Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive (2012) (105)
- A Taxonomy of Social Networking Data (2010) (100)
- Related-Key Cryptanalysis of 3-WAY (1997) (98)
- Reaction Attacks against several Public-Key Cryptosystems (1999) (95)
- Building PRFs from PRPs (1998) (93)
- Key-Schedule Cryptanalysis of DEAL (1999) (86)
- Mod n Cryptanalysis, with Applications Against RC5P and M6 (1999) (86)
- Defeating Encrypted and Deniable File Systems: TrueCrypt v5.1a and the Case of the Tattling OS and Applications (2008) (80)
- Schneier on security (2008) (78)
- The Twofish Encryption Algorithm (1999) (71)
- Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP) (1998) (71)
- Data Encryption Standard (DES) (2015) (70)
- Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes in Internet Protocols (2005) (69)
- Fast Software Encryption: Designing Encryption Algorithms for Optimal Software Speed on the Intel Pentium Processor (1997) (67)
- Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's PPTP Authentication Extensions (MS-CHAPv2) (1999) (67)
- A Performance Comparison of the Five AES Finalists (2000) (65)
- Architecture of Privacy (2009) (57)
- A certified e-mail protocol (1998) (56)
- A SELF-STUDY COURSE IN BLOCK-CIPHER CRYPTANALYSIS (2000) (55)
- Voting and technology: who gets to count your vote? (2003) (55)
- Insurance and the computer industry (2001) (44)
- The Electronic Privacy Papers: Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance (1997) (44)
- Cryptanalysis of ORYX (1998) (42)
- Minimizing Bandwidth for Remote Access to Cryptographically Protected Audit Logs (1999) (40)
- Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems (2015) (40)
- Privacy threats in intimate relationships (2020) (39)
- Cryptanalysis of the Cellular Encryption Algorithm (1997) (39)
- Cryptanalysis of the cellular message encryption algorithm (1997) (38)
- Detecting Cheaters (2011) (36)
- SECURITY PITFALLS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY (1998) (36)
- Data and Goliath (2015) (35)
- Managed Security Monitoring: Network Security for the 21st Centur (2001) (35)
- Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy (2018) (35)
- Second Primages on n-bit Hash Functions for Much Less than 2n Work | NIST (2005) (35)
- Inside risks: semantic network attacks (2000) (33)
- DIGITAL SECURITY IN A NETWORKED WORLD (2013) (33)
- Implementation of Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks against PGP and GnuPG (2002) (31)
- Preliminary Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round Serpent (2000) (31)
- Remote electronic gambling (1997) (31)
- Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive Surveillance: A Threat Model and Problem Statement (2015) (30)
- Guilty until proven innocent? (2003) (30)
- A Chosen Ciphertext Attack Against Several E-Mail Encryption Protocols (2000) (27)
- Guest Editors' Introduction: Economics of Information Security (2005) (27)
- Attack Trends: 2004 and 2005 (2005) (27)
- An improved e-mail security protocol (1997) (26)
- AES Key Agility Issues in High-Speed IPsec Implementations (2000) (25)
- The MacGuffin Block Cipher Algorithm (1994) (24)
- Automatic Event-Stream Notarization Using Digital Signatures (1996) (24)
- The Street Performer Protocol and Digital Copyrights (1999) (24)
- Risks of third-party data (2005) (23)
- Economics of Information Security and Privacy III (2013) (23)
- On the Twofish Key Schedule (1998) (23)
- Cryptography: The Importance of Not Being Different (1999) (23)
- Stop Trying to Fix the User (2016) (23)
- An authenticated camera (1996) (22)
- Hacking the business climate for network security (2004) (22)
- Reaction Attacks Against Several Public-Key Cryptosystem (1997) (22)
- The Future of Incident Response (2014) (22)
- Perspectives on the SolarWinds Incident (2021) (21)
- Red-black trees (1992) (21)
- The case for outsourcing security (2002) (21)
- Sensible Authentication (2004) (21)
- The nonsecurity of secrecy (2004) (20)
- "E-mail Security - How to keep your Electronic Messages Private": E-mail security by Bruce Schneier 1995 (John Wiley & Sons 365 pp.) isbn 0-471-05318-X (1995) (19)
- IoT Security: What's Plan B? (2017) (19)
- Remote auditing of software outputs using a trusted coprocessor (1997) (18)
- Cryptography, security, and the future (1999) (17)
- Semantic network attacks. (2000) (17)
- E-mail security (1995) (17)
- Cryptography Is Harder than It Looks (2016) (17)
- Here Comes Here Comes Everybody (review of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by C. Shirky) [Books] (2008) (16)
- A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products (2016) (16)
- Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance (2018) (16)
- Securing Medical Research: A Cybersecurity Point of View (2012) (16)
- Inside risks (1997) (16)
- Secrets and lies - digital security in a networked world: with new information about post-9/11 security (2004) (16)
- Schneier's Cryptography Classics Library: Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies, and Practical Cryptography (2007) (16)
- Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security (2013) (16)
- Customers, Passwords, and Web Sites (2004) (15)
- Smart Card Research and Applications (1998) (15)
- Information Security and Externalities (2007) (14)
- Insider risks in elections (2004) (14)
- The trojan horse race (1999) (13)
- Politics of Adversarial Machine Learning (2020) (13)
- Security and Compliance (2004) (12)
- Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning (2021) (12)
- Risks of Relying on Cryptography. (1999) (12)
- Authenticating Secure Tokens Using Slow Memory Access (1999) (11)
- Metadata = Surveillance (2014) (11)
- MARS Attacks! Preliminary Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round MARS Variants (2000) (11)
- Locks and full disclosure (2003) (11)
- Security pitfalls in cryptographic design (1998) (11)
- Electronic commerce and the street performer protocol (1998) (11)
- Taking Stock: Estimating Vulnerability Rediscovery (2017) (10)
- Block Cipher Modes (2015) (10)
- Comments on Twofish as an AES Candidate (2000) (10)
- Schneier on Security: Privacy and Control (2010) (10)
- Cryptanalysis of FROG (1998) (10)
- Key Length (2004) (10)
- Making Democracy Harder to Hack (2017) (9)
- A Peer-to-Peer Software Metering System (1999) (9)
- Raising Goats For Dummies (2010) (8)
- Risks of PKI: E-Commerce. (2000) (8)
- Inside risks: risks of PKI (2000) (8)
- The Importance of Security Engineering (2012) (8)
- Protecting privacy and liberty (2001) (8)
- The Internet of Things Will Upend Our Industry (2017) (8)
- Security and Function Creep (2010) (8)
- Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment (2000) (8)
- Securing the World Wide Web: Smart Tokens and Their Implementation (1996) (8)
- Inside risks: the Trojan horse race (1999) (8)
- Cryptanalysis of TWOPRIME (1998) (7)
- The Electronic Privacy Papers (2007) (7)
- Cryptanalysis of Akelarre (1997) (6)
- The Zotob Storm (2005) (6)
- Designing Encryption Algorithms for Real People (1994) (6)
- Conditional purchase orders (1997) (6)
- The speed of security (2003) (6)
- Authenticating Outputs of Computer Software Using a Cryptographic Coprocessor (1996) (6)
- IT for Oppression (2013) (6)
- Inside risks: risks of relying on cryptography (1999) (6)
- The Death of the Security Industry (2007) (6)
- We are all security consumers (2003) (6)
- Attacking Machine Learning Systems (2020) (6)
- Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption (2000) (5)
- Voting security and technology (2004) (5)
- Cryptanalysis of SPEED (1998) (5)
- Making Democracy Harder to Hack: Should Elections Be Classified as ‘Critical Infrastructure?’ (2016) (5)
- SIMS: Solution, or Part of the Problem? (2004) (5)
- Inside risks: risks of PKI: e-commerce (2000) (5)
- Technologists vs. Policy Makers (2020) (4)
- Twofish on Smart Cards (1998) (4)
- We Have Root (2019) (4)
- Protocol Building Blocks (2015) (4)
- Other Stream Ciphers and Real Random‐Sequence Generators (2015) (4)
- Cybersecurity for the Public Interest (2019) (4)
- Trust in Man/Machine Security Systems (2013) (4)
- A Twofish Retreat : Related-Key Attacks Against Reduced-Round Twofish (2000) (4)
- Legal Risks of Adversarial Machine Learning Research (2020) (4)
- How Changing Technology Affects Security (2012) (3)
- Proceedings of the The International Conference on Smart Card Research and Applications (1998) (3)
- Further Observations on the Key Schedule of Twosh (1999) (3)
- Fast Software Encryption: 7th International Workshop, FSE 2000, New York, NY, USA, April 10-12, 2000. Proceedings (2001) (3)
- Cyberconflicts and national security (2013) (3)
- Key‐Exchange Algorithms (2015) (3)
- Nonsecurity Considerations in Security Decisions (2007) (3)
- Why the NSA Makes Us More Vulnerable to Cyberattacks (2017) (3)
- Security, Group Size, and the Human Brain (2009) (3)
- Security Weaknesses in a Randomized Stream Cipher (2000) (3)
- Cryptography after the Aliens Land (2018) (3)
- Census of cyberspace censoring (2008) (3)
- How the Human Brain Buys Security (2008) (3)
- Inside Risks: The perils of port 80 (2001) (2)
- Twosh on Smart Cards (2000) (2)
- Evaluating Security Systems: A Five-Step Process (2004) (2)
- Digital signatures (1993) (2)
- Cyberwar: Myth or Reality? (2010) (2)
- Special Algorithms for Protocols (2015) (2)
- University Networks and Data Security (2006) (2)
- Distributed Proctoring (1996) (2)
- DeadDrop/StrongBox security assessment (2013) (2)
- Invited Talk: The Coming AI Hackers (2021) (2)
- The Global Public Key Infrastructure : Terms and Concepts (1998) (2)
- Public‐Key Algorithms (2015) (2)
- Public‐Key Digital Signature Algorithms (2015) (2)
- Cryptography in Context (2015) (2)
- Secrets and lies - IT-Sicherheit in einer vernetzten Welt (2004) (2)
- Authentication and Expiration (2005) (2)
- Cryptanalytic Progress: Lessons for AES (2000) (2)
- Algorithm Types and Modes (2015) (2)
- Networked‐Computer Security (2015) (2)
- Robot Hacking Games (2022) (2)
- Empathy and Security (2011) (1)
- The internet: Anonymous forever (2010) (1)
- The Secure Channel (2015) (1)
- New Results on the Two sh Encryption Algorithm (1999) (1)
- Ubiquitous Surveillance and Security [Keynote] (2015) (1)
- Roadblocks on the information superhighway (1997) (1)
- Introduction to Cryptography (2015) (1)
- Introduction to Cryptographic Protocols (2015) (1)
- Usability and Psychology 2.1 Introduction (2008) (1)
- Software-Based Attestation (2011) (1)
- Untangling public-key cryptography (1992) (1)
- Message Authentication Codes (2015) (1)
- Pervasive Attack: A Threat Model and Problem Statement (2014) (1)
- Airplane hackers (2003) (1)
- Secure Authentication with Multiple Parallel Keys (1998) (1)
- Standards and Patents (2015) (1)
- On the Two sh Key Schedule (1998) (0)
- NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards Competition (2022) (0)
- E-mail security : how to keep your messages private (1995) (0)
- Vulnerabilities and the Vulnerability Landscape (2015) (0)
- Combining Block Ciphers (2015) (0)
- Identification and Authentication (2015) (0)
- Smart Card. Research and Applications: Third International Conference, CARDIS'98 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 14-16, 1998 Proceedings (2000) (0)
- Electronic Commerce and the Street Performer (1998) (0)
- Copy protection for portable music play equipment (2000) (0)
- THIRD ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD CANDIDATE (2001) (0)
- Electronic speech—for domestic use only (1997) (0)
- Security Savvy: A Visual Guide (2005) (0)
- Description of the Blowfish Cipher (1999) (0)
- Security Policies and Countermeasures (2015) (0)
- Introduction to Security and Applied Cryptography (2006) (0)
- An Alternate Key Scheduling Algorithm for Blowfish and its Performance Analysis (2019) (0)
- A Report by an Ad Hoc Group of Cryptographers and Computer Scientists & Trusted Third Party Encryption (1998) (0)
- What Will It Take? (2021) (0)
- Implementation Issues (I) (2015) (0)
- Speaker Identification and Verification (SIV) (2011) (0)
- The Future of Products (2015) (0)
- The perils of port 80. (2001) (0)
- Special issue on security and trust management for dynamic coalitions (2010) (0)
- Surveillance, the {NSA}, and Everything (2013) (0)
- Afterword by Matt Blaze (2015) (0)
- Poor Decisions About Security (2013) (0)
- Subgroup Cryptosystems (2011) (0)
- Superheroes on screen: real life lessons for security debates (2019) (0)
- The Security Value of Muddling Through (2015) (0)
- Coalition Petition to the U.S. Department of Education to Amend 34 CFR Part 99 to Establish a Data Security Rule (2016) (0)
- The crypto bomb is ticking (1998) (0)
- Number 25 (2019) (0)
- Lottery system with off-line remote computers (1996) (0)
- Hacking the Tax Code (2020) (0)
- The Real World (2015) (0)
- Billing and collection system for 900-numbers and procedures for on-line computer services (1996) (0)
- Machine Learning Featurizations for AI Hacking of Political Systems (2021) (0)
- Implementation Issues (II) (2015) (0)
- Certificates and Credentials (2015) (0)
- E-mail security: maintaining privacy in a world of public data transfer (1997) (0)
- 4 Our Solution : The Street Performer Protocol 4 . 1 (1998) (0)
- Coalition Letter to President Obama Urging Support for Encryption (2015) (0)
- The field of battle: an overview (1997) (0)
- How to save the net (2014) (0)
- Security Weaknesses in Maurer-Like Randomized Stream Ciphers (2000) (0)
- Reviews (2007) (0)
- Other Block Ciphers (2015) (0)
- Speaker Biometrics (2009) (0)
- Method and apparatus for secure time stamps of documents (1997) (0)
- Early skirmishes (1997) (0)
- High-tech cheats in a world of trust (2012) (0)
- The Committee on Homeland Security (2003) (0)
- Unnoticed Consent [Last Word] (2018) (0)
- Product Testing and Verification (2015) (0)
- Pseudo‐Random‐Sequence Generators and Stream Ciphers (2015) (0)
- CC3: An Identity Attested Linux Security Supervisor Architecture (2015) (0)
- Inside risks: cyber underwriters lab (2001) (0)
- The Human Factor (2015) (0)
- Still Other Block Ciphers (2015) (0)
- Resources on Existential Risk General Blockinscholarly Blockindiscussion Blockinof Blockinexistential Blockinrisk (0)
- The Context of Cryptography (2015) (0)
- Cyber underwriters lab. (2001) (0)
- The Dream of PKI (2015) (0)
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