Markus Kuhn (computer scientist)
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| birth_name = Markus Guenther Kuhn
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1971}}References
Kuhn, M. (1971, January 1). Retrieved from [https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/kuhn-da.pdf Sicherheitsanalyse eines Mikroprozessors mit Busverschlusselun]
| birth_place = Munich, West Germany
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| fields = Computer science
Computer security
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{{Cite journal | last1 = Kuhn | first1 = M. G. | title = Cipher instruction search attack on the bus-encryption security microcontroller DS5002FP | doi = 10.1109/12.729797 | journal = IEEE Transactions on Computers | volume = 47 | issue = 10 | pages = 1153–1157 | year = 1998 }}{{Cite book | last1 = Kuhn | first1 = M. G. | chapter = Optical time-domain eavesdropping risks of CRT displays | doi = 10.1109/SECPRI.2002.1004358 | title = Proceedings 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | pages = 3–4 | year = 2002 | isbn = 978-0-7695-1543-4 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.7.5870 | s2cid = 2385507 }}{{Cite book | last1 = Hancke | first1 = G. P. | last2 = Kuhn | first2 = M. G. | doi = 10.1109/SECURECOMM.2005.56 | chapter = An RFID Distance Bounding Protocol | title = First International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communications Networks (SECURECOMM'05) | pages = 67 | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-0-7695-2369-9 | s2cid = 435025 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Petitcolas | first1 = F. A. P. | last2 = Anderson | first2 = R. J. | last3 = Kuhn | first3 = M. G. | doi = 10.1109/5.771065 | title = Information hiding-a survey | journal = Proceedings of the IEEE | volume = 87 | issue = 7 | pages = 1062 | year = 1999 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.333.9397 }}{{Cite book | last1 = Kuhn | first1 = M. G. | chapter = Compromising emanations of LCD TV sets | doi = 10.1109/ISEMC.2011.6038442 | title = 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility | pages = 931–936 | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-1-4577-0812-1 | s2cid = 47153474 }}
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| thesis_title = Compromising emanations: eavesdropping risks of computer displays
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| thesis_year = 2002
| doctoral_advisor = Ross J. Anderson{{MathGenealogy|id=161231}}
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| doctoral_students = Steven Murdoch{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Steven James|last=Murdoch |title=Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems |publisher=University of Cambridge |year=2008 |url=http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=30158}}
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Markus Guenther Kuhn (born 1971) is a German computer scientist, currently working at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/DeptInfo/Overview/ The Blue Book] – "The Computer Laboratory: an Introduction", University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Oct 2006 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204065322/http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/DeptInfo/Overview/ |date=4 February 2007 }}{{GoogleScholar|4FSAZOsAAAAJ}}{{AcademicSearch|1399760}}{{DBLP|name=Markus G. Kuhn}}{{Scopus|id=8900011300}}
Education
Kuhn was educated at University of Erlangen (Germany), he received his Master of Science degree at Purdue University and PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Research
Kuhn's main research interests include computer security, in particular the hardware and signal-processing aspects of it, and distributed systems. He is known, among other things, for his work on security microcontrollers, compromising emanations, and distance-bounding protocols. He developed the Stirmark test for digital watermarking schemes, the OTPW one-time password system, and headed the project that extended the X11 misc-fixed fonts to Unicode.
In 1994, as an undergraduate student, he became known for developing several ways to circumvent the VideoCrypt encryption system, most notably the Season7 smartcard emulator.{{Cite web | title=MS-DOS Videocrypt smart card emulator | url=http://www.textfiles.com/hacking/CABLE/season7.txt | date=19 June 1994 | first=Markus | last=Kuhn }}
In 2002, he published a new method for eavesdropping CRT screens and in 2003 he went on to publish mitigations such as "Tempest fonts".{{cite journal |last= Kuhn |first= Markus G. |author-link= Markus Kuhn (computer scientist) |date=December 2003|title= Compromising emanations: eavesdropping risks of computer displays |journal=Technical Report |issue= 577|publisher= University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory |location= Cambridge, United Kingdom |issn= 1476-2986 |id= UCAM-CL-TR-577 |url= http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-577.pdf |access-date= 2010-10-29}}
In 2010, Kuhn was asked to analyse the ADE 651, a device used in Iraq that was said to be a bomb-detecting device; he found that it contained nothing but an anti-theft tag and said that it was "impossible" that the device could detect anything whatsoever.{{cite news |work=BBC News|title=Iraq backing for 'bomb detector' |date=24 January 2010 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/8477601.stm }}
He is also known for some of his work on international standardisation, such as pioneering the introduction of Unicode/UTF-8 under Linux.[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux]
Awards and honours
In 1987 and 1988, he won the German national computer-science contest,P. Heyderhoff: Bundeswettbewerb Informatik. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 11, pp. 107–108, Springer-Verlag, 1988 and in 1989, he won a gold medal for the West German team at the International Olympiad in Informatics.P. Heyderhoff: Informatik-Olympiade. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 12, p. 235, Springer-Verlag, 1989[http://www.oi.edu.pl/ioires/c_ioi89.html Results of the IOI 1989] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628212422/http://www.oi.edu.pl/ioires/c_ioi89.html |date=28 June 2007 }}
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