15th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
December 6-10, 1999
Phoenix, Arizona
Distinguished Lecturer
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson is a faculty member of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, where he
teaches and leads research in computer security, cryptology and software engineering. His most
innovative recent work is on “Soft Tempest” - the use of software techniques to reduce the radio
frequency information leakage from PC monitors and keyboards. This software is now fielded in a
number of computer security products including PGP. He is a coauthor of Serpent, a leading candidate in
the current competition to find an Advanced Encryption Standard. He also has well known publications
on the tamper resistance of smartcards, techniques for removing copyright marks from digital media, and
the robustness of cryptographic protocols. Other papers document the failure modes of a number of real
world systems including automatic teller machines, prepayment electricity meters, and goods vehicle
tachographs. The unifying theme of his work is to provide robust control mechanisms for tomorrow's
heterogeneous distributed systems.