Kenneth G. "Kenny" Paterson (born 2 March 1969) is a professor in the Institute of Information Security at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Applied Cryptography Group.[1] Before joining ETH Zurich in April 2019, he was a professor in the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London and an EPSRC Leadership Fellow. He is a cryptographer with a focus on bridging the gap between theory and practice[2] and recently became the Editor in Chief for the IACR's Journal of Cryptology[3] and a 2017 fellow of the IACR.[4]
Education edit
Paterson obtained a BSc in 1990 from the University of Glasgow and a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London in 1993, both in Mathematics.[5][6]
Career edit
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 Information Security Group at Royal Holloway 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".[7] In May 2015, he returned to working as a professor. He became the Editor in Chief for the IACR's Journal of Cryptology.[8]
Research edit
Paterson is notable for attacks on the Encapsulating Security Payload in IPSec, the Lucky 13 attack on TLS, attacks on the use of RC4 in TLS and on use of CBC mode in the SSH protocol. He also worked on improved security models proving protocols secure against such attacks.[9][10]
Awards edit
- Distinguished Paper Award for work with Nadhem AlFardan presenting plaintext recovery attacks against DTLS published at NDSS 2012[11]
- Applied Networking Research Prize from the IRTF for work with Nadhem AlFardan on the Lucky 13 attack[12]
- 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.[13]
- Best Paper Award at ACM CCS 2016 for work with Martin Albrecht, Jean Paul Degabriele and Torben Hansen on symmetric encryption in SSH[14]
References edit
- ^ "Kenny Paterson's Homepage at ETH Zurich". Retrieved 2023-08-25.
- ^ "Kenny Paterson's Homepage at Royal Holloway". Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "Journal of Cryptology". Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "Kenneth G. Paterson, IACR Fellow, 2017". Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ "Kenny Paterson's Homepage at ETH Zurich". Archived from the original on 2019-08-14. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ^ "On sequences and arrays with specific window properties - K.G. Patterson". Retrieved 2023-09-09.
- ^ "Cryptography: Bridging Theory and Practice". Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "Journal of Cryptology". Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ Boldyreva, Alexandra; Degabriele, Jean Paul; Paterson, Kenneth G.; Stam, Martijn. "Security of Symmetric Encryption in the Presence of Ciphertext Fragmentation" (PDF). Springer. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ Albrecht, Martin R.; Degabriele, Jean Paul; Hansen, Torben Brandt; Paterson, Kenneth G. "A Surfeit of SSH Cipher Suites" (PDF). Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "NDSS 2012 - Papers and Presentations". Archived from the original on 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
- ^ "Applied Networking Research Prize". Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "PET Award". Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "ACM CCS 2016 Awards". Retrieved 5 February 2017.