Bruce Schneier
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 15 January 1963
- Works
- 30
Top works
- The Crypto-spring
- Hello, quantum world
- Smart card research and applications
- A Hacker's Mind
- Schneier on security
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 667
- Total plays
- 1,394
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,416x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,974x
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,340x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,052x
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Quotes
- “Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.”
- “There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.”
- “Attacks always get better, they never get worse.”
- “The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments.”
- “A few years ago I heard a quotation, and I am going to modify it here: If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.”
- “It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1963-01-15 ) January 15, 1963 (age 63) , New York City , U.S.
- Alma mater
- American University University of Rochester
- Known for
- Cryptography , security
- Fields
- Computer science
- Institutions
- Harvard University Counterpane Internet Security Bell Labs United States Department of Defense BT Group
- Website
- www .schneier .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bruce
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- physicist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- cryptography
- Official website
- www.schneier.com
- Image
- Bruce Schneier 1.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1963-01-15
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- Erdős number
- 3
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- 8FBB10D4 A2B73FAE 935FF3AE BA5EFFE2 9A98966F
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- Bruce Schneier
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011376
- social media followers
- 144980
- official blog URL
- www.schneier.com
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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- name in native language
- Bruce Schneier
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Encyclopedic overview
Bruce Schneier (/ˈʃnaɪ.ər/; born January 15, 1963) is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. Schneier is an adjunct 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.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bruce Schneier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.