Ross John Anderson (September 15, 1956 to March 28, 2024) was a British researcher, author and industry consultant in security engineering, and Professor of Security Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, where he was part of the university's security group. His research encompassed banking security, security economics, information policy and cryptography, he co-designed the Serpent cipher, a finalist in the Advanced Encryption Standard competition, and contributed to the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives. He founded the Foundation for Information Policy Research in 1998 and received the BCS Lovelace Medal in 2015.
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What did the Foundation for Information Policy Research that Ross Anderson founded accomplish?
It advised on UK technology policy and helped amend the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
Anderson created the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), a think tank, in 1998. It advised on various pieces of UK technology policy and helped bring about amendments to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Those amendments included preventing browser surveillance without a warrant and raising the level of authorization needed for police to access passwords and decryption keys to chief constable.
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1. Wikidata: Ross J. Anderson
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- In Group: Systems Security, lead sentence: Ross John Anderson (15 September 1956-28 March 2024) was a British researcher, author, and industry consultant in security engineering.
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Ross John Anderson (15 September 1956-28 March 2024) was a British researcher, author, and industry consultant in security engineering.
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Tiger is a cryptographic hash function designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham in 1995 for efficiency on 64-bit platforms.
Invented: Tiger (hash function)
Tiger is a cryptographic hash function designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham in 1995 for efficiency on 64-bit platforms.
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