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Niels Ferguson

Dutch cryptographer · Netherlands · On the map · Academics · Born 1965 · age 60

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.

Niels Ferguson is read about 7 times a day, in 8 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 18 June 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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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.

Country
Netherlands
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1965 · age 60