Ross Anderson

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Ross Anderson is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is Professor in Security Engineering at Cambridge University. In cryptography, he, together with Eli Biham, designed the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives, and also the block cipher Serpent (with Biham and Lars Knudsen). He has also discovered weaknesses in many algorithms and security systems. He is an outspoken critic of trusted computing, including Microsoft's proposals for the Palladium operating system.

Anderson is the author of Security Engineering, published by Wiley in 2001, ISBN 0471389226.

See also

• Computer insecurity
• Physical security
• Secure computing
• Cryptosystem

External links

• RJA web page
• Why Information Security is Hard - An Economic Perspective
• Ross Anderson's TCPA/Palladium FAQ