David Wagner

David Wagner , cryptologist and Data processing specialist American born in 1974. Mathematics professor and of data processing with Berkeley in California. He is the author of the Attaque boomerang within the framework of the symmetrical Cryptographie. The searchs for David Wagner relate to safety in the cryptographic networks and primitives. He is also the author of tools intended to check the robustness of programs written in C and to detect the vulnerabilities present in the code.

Research and contributions

  • 1995 Discovered of a fault in SSL within Netscape.
  • 1997 Cryptanalyse with Bruce Schneier of coding CMEA used in mobile phones in the United States.
  • 1999 Invention of the attacks by slip ( slide attack ) with Alex Biryukov.
  • 1999 Discovered Attack Boomerang and cryptanalyse MOD N .
  • 1999 Cryptanalyse of the protocol PPTP of Microsoft (with Bruce Schneier)
  • 2000 Cryptanalyse of A5 (coding by flood) used in the mobiles GSM (with Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir)
  • 2001 Cryptanalyse of WEP used in the protocol 802.11 for the wireless networkings " WiFi" (with Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg).
  • 2002 Cryptanalyse of the encryption algorithm per block FOX.

External bonds

  • Page of David Wagner
  • the attack Boomerang

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