David A. Wagner
David A. Wagner | |
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Born | 1974 |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Professor, University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | cryptanalysis, cipher design, electronic voting |
Scientific career | |
Doctoral advisor | Eric Brewer |
Website | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/ |
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 2020-2022[1]. He has received awards for his teaching[2].
Research
Wagner has published two books and over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers[3]. 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).[4]
References
- ^ "Our Leadership | EECS at UC Berkeley". web.archive.org. 2022-08-02. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
- ^ "Faculty Awards | Faculty Awards | EECS at UC Berkeley". www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
- ^ "dblp: David A. Wagner 0001". dblp.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
- ^ Netscape SSL implementation cracked, news posting to
hks.lists.cypherpunks
on 18 Sep 1995
External links
- Professor Wagner's home page
- David Wagner election research papers
- Some of Wagner's publications
- Interview and biography at the Wayback Machine (archived February 3, 2004)
- Another interview