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Niels Ferguson · Vinony

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Niels Ferguson

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Dutch cryptographer

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Born: 1965-12-10
Works: 2

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Cryptography engineering
Practical cryptography

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1928-05-04
Active to: 2006-08-24

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Born: 10 December 1965

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Instance of: human
Given name: Niels
Family name: Ferguson
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Place of birth: Eindhoven
Occupation: computer scientist
Employer: Microsoft
Field of work: cryptography

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

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Content Scramble System

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block cipher mode of operation

Trusted Computing

Yarrow algorithm

public-key cryptography

pseudorandom number generator

Key encapsulation

digital rights management

censorship in the United States

High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection

NIST hash function competition

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PGP web of trust

Advanced Encryption Standard

substitution–permutation network

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