Kenneth G. "Kenny" Paterson (born 2 March 1969) is a professor in the Institute of Information Security at

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, where he leads the Applied Cryptography Group. Before joining ETH Zurich in April 2019, he was a professor in the

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and an

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Leadership Fellow. He is a

cryptographer Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...

with a focus on bridging the gap between theory and practice and recently became the Editor in Chief for the IACR's

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and a 2017 fellow of the IACR.

Education

Paterson obtained a BSc in 1990 from the

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and a PhD from the University of London in 1993, both in

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

Career

Paterson was a Royal Society Fellow at Institute for Signal and Information Processing at ETH Zurich from 1993 to 1994. In 1996, he joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol. He then joined the

in 2001, becoming a Reader in 2002 and Professor in 2004. From March 2010 to May 2015, he was an EPSRC Leadership Fellow working on a project entitled "Cryptography: Bridging Theory and Practice". In May 2015, he returned to working as a professor. He became the Editor in Chief for the IACR's ''

''.

Research

Paterson is notable for attacks on the

Encapsulating Security Payload In computing, Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a secure network protocol suite that authenticates and encrypts packets of data to provide secure encrypted communication between two computers over an Internet Protocol network. It is used in v ...

IPSec In computing, Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a secure network protocol suite that authenticates and encrypts packets of data to provide secure encrypted communication between two computers over an Internet Protocol network. It is used in ...

, the

Lucky 13 ''Lucky 13'' is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Chris Hall and starring Brad Hunt, Harland Williams, Lauren Graham, Sasha Alexander, Debra Jo Rupp, John Doe, Kaley Cuoco and Taryn Manning. Plot This film is about Zach Baker an ...

attack on

TLS TLS may refer to: Computing * Transport Layer Security, a cryptographic protocol for secure computer network communication * Thread level speculation, an optimisation on multiprocessor CPUs * Thread-local storage, a mechanism for allocating vari ...

, attacks on the use of

RC4 In cryptography, RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4, also known as ARC4 or ARCFOUR, meaning Alleged RC4, see below) is a stream cipher. While it is remarkable for its simplicity and speed in software, multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RC4, ren ...

in TLS and on use of

CBC mode In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity. A block cipher by itself is only suitable for the secure cryptographic transfor ...

in the

SSH The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution. SSH applications are based on a ...

protocol. He also worked on improved security models proving protocols secure against such attacks.

Awards

* Distinguished Paper Award for work with Nadhem AlFardan presenting plaintext recovery attacks against DTLS published at NDSS 2012 * Applied Networking Research Prize from the IRTF for work with Nadhem AlFardan on the Lucky 13 attack * Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies for work with Mihir Bellare and Phil Rogaway on the Security of symmetric encryption against mass surveillance published at CRYPTO 2014. * Best Paper Award at ACM CCS 2016 for work with Martin Albrecht, Jean Paul Degabriele and Torben Hansen on symmetric encryption in SSH

References

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