Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index David Wagner is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a well known cryptographer. Notable achievements include: 1996 Discovered a flaw in the implementation of SSL in Netscape Navigator (with Ian Goldberg); 1997 Cryptanalyzed the CMEA algorithm used in many US cellphones (with Bruce Schneier); 1998 Development of Twofish block cipher as a submission for NIST's AES competition (with Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, Doug Whiting, Chris Hall, and Niels Ferguson); 1999 Invention of the slide attack, a new form of cryptanalysis (with Alex Biryukov); 1999 Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's PPTP tunnelling protocol (with Bruce Schneier and "Mudge"); 2000 Cryptanalysis of the A5/1 stream cipher used in GSM cellphones (with Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir); 2001 Cryptanalysis of WEP, the stream cipher used in 802.11 "WiFi" networks (with Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg). External Links Professor Wagner's home page: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/ This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.