- Ian Goldberg
Ian Avrum Goldberg (born
March 31 ,1973 ) is acryptographer andcypherpunk . He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (withDavid Wagner ),cite newsgroup
author = Ian Goldberg
date = 1995-09-18
title = Netscape SSL implementation cracked!
newsgroup = hks.lists.cypherpunks
url = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/my-posts/netscape-cracked-0
accessdate = 2006-09-12] and for his role as Chief Scientist ofRadialpoint (formerly Zero-Knowledge Systems), a Canadian software company. Beginning with the fall 2006 academic term, Goldberg is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science,University of Waterloo .Education
He attended high school at the
University of Toronto Schools , graduating in 1991. In 1995, he received aB.Math from theUniversity of Waterloo in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science. He obtained a Ph.D. from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in December 2000. His thesis was entitled "A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet". His advisor was Eric Brewer.Accomplishments
As a high school student, Goldberg was a member of Canada's team to the International Math Olympiad from 1989 to 1991, where he received a bronze, silver, and gold medal respectively. In 1998, "Wired" Magazine chose him as a member of the "Wired 25"cite journal
title = The Wired 25
journal = Wired
volume = 6
issue = 11
date = 1998-11
url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/wired25.html
accessdate = 2006-10-30 ] .Work in cryptography
In 1995, Ian Goldberg with
David Wagner discovered a flaw in therandom number generator used for temporary key generation in the SSL implementation ofNetscape Navigator .One of the first cryptanalyses on the WEP wireless encryption protocol was conducted by Goldberg with
Nikita Borisov and David Wagner, revealing serious flaws in its design.cite paper
author = Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, David Wagner
title = Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11
date = 2001
url = http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/mobicom.pdf
format =PDF
accessdate = 2006-09-12]Goldberg was a co-author of the Off-the-Record
instant messaging encryption protocol. He is also the author of thePerl script given in "Cryptonomicon ", a novel byNeal Stephenson .See also
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Data privacy
*Information privacy External links
* [http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/ Ian Goldberg's homepage]
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