Academic

Peter Gutmann (computer scientist)

New Zealand computer scientist

Life: 1953 – present
Born: 1953
Nationality: New Zealand

Peter Claus Gutmann is a computer scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Auckland. His Ph.D. thesis and a book based on the thesis were about a cryptographic security architecture. He is interested in computer security issues, including security architecture, security usability, and hardware security; he has discovered several flaws in publicly released cry