Roger Needham
| Roger Needham | |
|---|---|
Roger Needham in 1999
|
|
| Born |
9 February 1935 Sheffield |
| Died | 1 March 2003 (aged 68) Willingham, Cambridgeshire |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions |
University of Cambridge Microsoft |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | The application of digital computers to problems of classification and grouping (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Wheeler |
| Doctoral students |
Ross Anderson David L. Tennenhouse Peter G. Gyarmati |
| Known for |
BAN logic Tiny Encryption Algorithm XTEA |
| Notable awards |
Faraday Medal (1998) Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
| Spouse | Karen Spärck Jones |
Roger Michael Needham, CBE, FRS, FREng (9 February 1935 – 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist.
He attended Doncaster Grammar School for Boys in Doncaster (then in the West Riding).
Needham began his undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 1953, graduating with a B.A. in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy. His Ph.D. thesis was on applications of digital computers to the automatic classification and retrieval of documents. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, computer architecture (capability systems) and local area networks.
Among his theoretical contributions is the development of the Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic for authentication, generally known as the BAN logic. His Needham-Schroeder (coinvented with Michael Schroeder) forms the basis of the authentication and key exchange system. He also codesigned the TEA and XTEA encryption algorithms. He pioneered the technique of protecting passwords using a one-way hash function.
...
Wikipedia