Bruce Schneier
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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
- Commons category
- Bruce Schneier
- Erdős number
- 3
- public key fingerprint
- 8FBB10D4 A2B73FAE 935FF3AE BA5EFFE2 9A98966F
- Commons gallery
- Bruce Schneier
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011376
- social media followers
- 144980
- official blog URL
- www.schneier.com
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- 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
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