Michael Waidner (born on December 20, 1961 in
Mühlacker
Mühlacker is a town in the eastern part of the Enz district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Mühlacker station has direct rail connections with Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Pforzheim and the Northern Black Forest.
Mühlhausen an der En ...
) is a German
computer scientist. He is director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology and
ATHENE
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, the largest research institute for
IT security
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in Europe. He is also professor of security in information technology at the
department of computer science of the
Technische Universität Darmstadt
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.
He is known for his work in
IT security
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,
privacy,
cryptography
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and
dependability
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.
Life
Waidner studied
computer science
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at the
University of Karlsruhe
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association.
KIT was created in 2009 w ...
and received his
doctorate
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in computer science in 1991. The title of his
dissertation was "Byzantine distribution without cryptographic assumptions despite any number of errors". From 1994 to 2006, he headed research in IT security and data protection at
IBM Research - Zurich and was one of the initiators of the Zurich Information Security Center at
ETH Zurich. He then moved to IBM in New York, where he was IBM Chief Technology Officer for Security and chairman of the IBM Security Architecture Board until September 2010.
Since 2010, Waidner is professor at the department of computer science of the
Technische Universität Darmstadt
The Technische Universität Darmstadt (official English name Technical University of Darmstadt, sometimes also referred to as Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmstadt ...
and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in
Darmstadt. Waidner is also director of ATHENE, the largest research institute for
IT security
Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...
in Europe. He is a visiting professor at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Since 2017, Waidner has also been
chief digital officer of
Darmstadt.
Publications
* Steiner, Michael & Tsudik, Gene & Waidner, Michael. (1999). Diffie-Hellman Key Distribution Extended to Group Communication. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. DOI: 10.1145/238168.238182.
* Steiner, Michael & Tsudik, Gene & Waidner, Michael. (2000). Key Agreement in Dynamic Peer Groups. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. DOI: 11.10.1109/71.877936.
* Asokan, N. & Schunter, Matthias & Waidner, Michael. (1997). Optimistic protocols for fair exchange. Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '97). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7-17. DOI: 10.1145/266420.266426.
*Asokan, N. & Shoup, Victor & Waidner, Michael. (1998). Optimistic Fair Exchange of Digital Signatures. DOI: 10.1007/BFb0054156.
Awards
He is a Fellow of the
IEEE
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and
ACM Distinguished Scientist.
References
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1961 births
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
German computer scientists
Living people
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
German cryptographers
People from Mühlacker
Chief technology officers