Markus Kuhn (computer scientist)

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Markus Guenther Kuhn
Born 1971 (age 41–42)
Munich, West Germany
Fields

Computer science
Computer security
Tamper resistance[1]

[2][3][4][5][6]
Institutions University of Cambridge
Purdue University
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Alma mater University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Purdue University
Wolfson College, Cambridge
Thesis Compromising emanations: eavesdropping risks of computer displays (2002)
Doctoral advisor Ross J. Anderson[7]
Doctoral students Saar Drimer[8]
Gerhard Hancke[9]
Andrew Lewis
Steven Murdoch
Piotr Zieliński[7]
Known for EURion constellation
Website
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25

Markus Guenther Kuhn (born 1971) is a German computer scientist, currently teaching and researching at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.[10][11][12][13]

Education [edit]

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. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Research [edit]

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 1987 and 1988, he won the German national computer-science contest,[14] and in 1989, he won a gold medal for the West German team at the International Olympiad in Informatics.[15][16] 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.[17]

In 2002, he published a new method for eavesdropping CRT screens.[18]

In 2010 Kuhn was asked to analyze 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.[19]

He is also known for some of his work on international standardization, such as pioneering the introduction of Unicode/UTF-8 under Linux.[20]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Markus Kuhn ACM author profile
  2. ^ Kuhn, M. G. (1998). "Cipher instruction search attack on the bus-encryption security microcontroller DS5002FP". IEEE Transactions on Computers 47 (10): 1153–1157. doi:10.1109/12.729797.  edit
  3. ^ Kuhn, M. G. (2002). "Optical time-domain eavesdropping risks of CRT displays". Proceedings 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. pp. 3–4. doi:10.1109/SECPRI.2002.1004358. ISBN 0-7695-1543-6.  edit
  4. ^ Hancke, G. P.; Kuhn, M. G. (2005). "An RFID Distance Bounding Protocol". First International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communications Networks (SECURECOMM'05). p. 67. doi:10.1109/SECURECOMM.2005.56. ISBN 0-7695-2369-2.  edit
  5. ^ Petitcolas, F. A. P.; Anderson, R. J.; Kuhn, M. G. (1999). "Information hiding-a survey". Proceedings of the IEEE 87 (7): 1062. doi:10.1109/5.771065.  edit
  6. ^ Kuhn, M. G. (2011). "Compromising emanations of LCD TV sets". 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility. pp. 931–936. doi:10.1109/ISEMC.2011.6038442. ISBN 978-1-4577-0812-1.  edit
  7. ^ a b Markus Kuhn (computer scientist) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. ^ Drimer, S.; Kuhn, M. G. (2009). "A Protocol for Secure Remote Updates of FPGA Configurations". Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5453. p. 50. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00641-8_8. ISBN 978-3-642-00640-1.  edit
  9. ^ Hancke, G. P.; Kuhn, M. G. (2008). "Attacks on time-of-flight distance bounding channels". Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security - WiSec '08. p. 194. doi:10.1145/1352533.1352566. ISBN 9781595938145.  edit
  10. ^ The Blue Book - "The Computer Laboratory: an Introduction", University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Oct 2006
  11. ^ List of publications from Google Scholar
  12. ^ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  13. ^ List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server
  14. ^ P. Heyderhoff: Bundeswettbewerb Informatik. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 11, pp. 107-108, Springer-Verlag, 1988
  15. ^ P. Heyderhoff: Informatik-Olympiade. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 12, p. 235, Springer-Verlag, 1989
  16. ^ Results of the IOI 1989
  17. ^ Markus Kuhn (1994-06-19). "MS-DOS Videocrypt smart card emulator". 
  18. ^ Kuhn, M. G. (2002). "Optical time-domain eavesdropping risks of CRT displays". Proceedings 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. pp. 3–4. doi:10.1109/SECPRI.2002.1004358. ISBN 0-7695-1543-6.  edit
  19. ^ Iraq backing for 'bomb detector'. BBC News 2010-01-24.
  20. ^ UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
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