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Roger Needham

Also Known As Roger Michael Needham
Security And Privacy

Roger Needham was a British computer scientist and a leading figure in computer security research. With Michael Schroeder he co-developed the Needham-Schroeder family of authentication protocols in the early 1980s, which shaped much of the later theory and practice of secure network authentication, and he served for many years as head of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory before later leading Microsoft Research in Cambridge.

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Birth Year
1935 1
Birth Date
1935-02-09 1
Death Year
2003 1
Death Date
2003-03-01 1
Nationality
British 1
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire 2
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Faraday Medal 2
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Fellow of the Royal Society 2
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Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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Clifford Paterson Lecture 2
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Fellow of the British Computer Society 2
Roger Needham
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What did Roger Needham contribute to security besides the Needham-Schroeder protocol?

He co-designed the TEA and XTEA encryption algorithms and pioneered protecting passwords with a one-way hash function.

Needham also co-designed the TEA and XTEA encryption algorithms, and he pioneered the technique of protecting passwords with a one-way hash function. Storing a hash instead of the password itself means that a stolen password file does not directly reveal the passwords it protects.
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Credited

Source Tiny Encryption Algorithm (Wikipedia)
XTEA, Algorithms
Source XTEA (Wikipedia)
XXTEA, Algorithms
Source XXTEA (Wikipedia)

In Field

Cryptography, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Roger Needham

Invented

Roger Needham led the Cambridge CAP computer project at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, built 1970 to 1977.

Source Tiny Encryption Algorithm (Wikipedia)

Invented By

XTEA, Algorithms
Source XTEA (Wikipedia)
XXTEA, Algorithms
Source XXTEA (Wikipedia)
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Roger Needham
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Roger Michael Needham (9 February 1935 - 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist.
  • In Field: Cryptography, Infobox field and known_for, lead paragraph
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2. Wikidata: Roger Needham
Wikidata Q92873, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
XTEA (Wikipedia)
  • Invented By: XTEA, Lead [invented]
    The cipher's designers were David Wheeler and Roger Needham of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory
  • Credited: XTEA, Lead [invented]
    The cipher's designers were David Wheeler and Roger Needham of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory
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XXTEA (Wikipedia)
  • Invented By: XXTEA, Lead [invented]
    The cipher's designers were Roger Needham and David Wheeler
  • Credited: XXTEA, Lead [invented]
    The cipher's designers were Roger Needham and David Wheeler
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Tiny Encryption Algorithm (Wikipedia)
  • Invented: Tiny Encryption Algorithm, Infobox, designers field
    Roger Needham, David Wheeler
  • Credited: Tiny Encryption Algorithm, Lead paragraph
    It was designed by David Wheeler and Roger Needham of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory; it was first presented at the Fast Software Encryption workshop in Leuven in 1994, and first published in the proceedings of that workshop.
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