David A. Wagner
{{short description|American computer scientist (born 1974)}}
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| name = David A. Wagner
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|1974}}
| doctoral_advisor = Eric Brewer
| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
| known_for = cryptanalysis, cipher design, electronic voting
| occupation = Professor, University of California, Berkeley
| website = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/
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David A. Wagner (born 1974) is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in cryptography and computer security. He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee, tasked with assisting the EAC in drafting the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. He was also a member of the ACCURATE project.
Biography
Wagner received an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1995, an M.S. in computer science from Berkeley in 1999, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley in 2000. He joined the faculty of Berkeley after graduation, became a Full Professor in 2010, and was chair of the Computer Science Department from 2020 to 2022.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-02 |title=Our Leadership {{!}} EECS at UC Berkeley |url=https://eecs.berkeley.edu/people/leadership/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802082252/https://eecs.berkeley.edu/people/leadership/ |archive-date=2022-08-02 }} He has received awards for his teaching.{{Cite web |title=Faculty Awards {{!}} Faculty Awards {{!}} EECS at UC Berkeley |url=https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Awards/index.html#342 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=www2.eecs.berkeley.edu}}
Research
Wagner has published two books and over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers.{{Cite web |title=dblp: David A. Wagner 0001 |url=https://dblp.org/pid/42/5626.html |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=dblp.org |language=en}} His notable achievements include:
- 2017 Development of the Carlini-Wagner attack on machine learning models (with Nicholas Carlini); used it to break 20 adversarial machine learning defenses.
- 2007 Served as principal investigator for the source code review and also the documentation review of the historic California state Top-to-Bottom review of electronic voting systems certified for use. Flaws found with vendor-supplied voting machines resulted in decertification and provisional recertification by the Secretary of State.
- 2001 Cryptanalysis of WEP, the security protocol used in 802.11 "WiFi" networks (with Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg).
- 2000 Cryptanalysis of the A5/1 stream cipher used in GSM cellphones (with Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir).
- 1999 Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's PPTP tunnelling protocol (with Bruce Schneier and "Mudge").
- 1999 Invention of the slide attack, a new form of cryptanalysis (with Alex Biryukov); also the boomerang attack and mod n cryptanalysis (the latter with Bruce Schneier and John Kelsey).
- 1998 Development of Twofish block cipher, which was a finalist for NIST's Advanced Encryption Standard competition (with Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, Doug Whiting, Chris Hall, and Niels Ferguson).
- 1997 Cryptanalyzed the CMEA algorithm used in many U.S. cellphones (with Bruce Schneier).
- 1995 Discovered a flaw in the implementation of SSL in Netscape Navigator (with Ian Goldberg).[http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/my-posts/netscape-cracked-0 Netscape SSL implementation cracked], news posting to
hks.lists.cypherpunkson 18 Sep 1995
References
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External links
- [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/ Professor Wagner's home page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090805180732/http://www.electiontechnology.com/who.php?id=25 David Wagner election research papers]
- [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wagner_0001:David_A= Some of Wagner's publications]
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040203054131/http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,364614,00.html |date=February 3, 2004 |title=Interview and biography }}
- [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/press/virtual-interview.html Another interview]
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Category:Modern cryptographers
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