Cryptographer
Niels Ferguson
Dutch cryptographer (born 1965)
- Life
- 1965 – present
- Born
- December 10, 1965
Niels T. Ferguson is a Dutch cryptographer and consultant. He has worked with others, including Bruce Schneier, designing cryptographic algorithms, testing algorithms and protocols, and writing papers and books. Among the designs Ferguson has contributed to is the AES finalist block cipher algorithm Twofish as well as the stream cipher Helix and the Skein hash function.
