Editing Markus Kuhn (computer scientist)

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Kuhn, M. (1971, January 1). Retrieved from [https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/kuhn-da.pdf Sicherheitsanalyse eines Mikroprozessors mit Busverschlusselun]</ref>
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<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Kuhn | first1 = M. G. | title = Cipher instruction search attack on the bus-encryption security microcontroller DS5002FP | doi = 10.1109/12.729797 | journal = IEEE Transactions on Computers | volume = 47 | issue = 10 | pages = 1153–1157 | year = 1998 }}</ref><ref name="Kuhn2002">{{Cite book | last1 = Kuhn | first1 = M. G. | chapter = Optical time-domain eavesdropping risks of CRT displays | doi = 10.1109/SECPRI.2002.1004358 | title = Proceedings 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | pages = 3–4 | year = 2002 | isbn = 978-0-7695-1543-4 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.7.5870 | s2cid = 2385507 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Hancke | first1 = G. P. | last2 = Kuhn | first2 = M. G. | doi = 10.1109/SECURECOMM.2005.56 | chapter = An RFID Distance Bounding Protocol | title = First International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communications Networks (SECURECOMM'05) | pages = 67 | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-0-7695-2369-9 | s2cid = 435025 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Petitcolas | first1 = F. A. P. | last2 = Anderson | first2 = R. J. | last3 = Kuhn | first3 = M. G. | doi = 10.1109/5.771065 | title = Information hiding-a survey | journal = Proceedings of the IEEE | volume = 87 | issue = 7 | pages = 1062 | year = 1999 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.333.9397 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Kuhn | first1 = M. G. | chapter = Compromising emanations of LCD TV sets | doi = 10.1109/ISEMC.2011.6038442 | title = 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility | pages = 931–936 | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-1-4577-0812-1 | s2cid = 47153474 }}</ref>
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* [[University of Cambridge]]
* [[Purdue University]]
* [[University of Erlangen-Nuremberg]]}}
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* [[University of Erlangen-Nuremberg]]
* [[Purdue University]]
* [[Wolfson College, Cambridge]]}}
| thesis_title      = Compromising emanations: eavesdropping risks of computer displays
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| doctoral_students = [[Steven Murdoch]]<ref name="murdochphd">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Steven James|last=Murdoch |title=Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems |publisher=University of Cambridge |year=2008 |url=http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=30158}}</ref>
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'''Markus Guenther Kuhn''' (born 1971) is a German [[computer scientist]], currently working at the [[Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge]] and a fellow of [[Wolfson College, Cambridge]].<ref>[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/DeptInfo/Overview/ The Blue Book] – "The Computer Laboratory: an Introduction", University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Oct 2006 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204065322/http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/DeptInfo/Overview/ |date=4 February 2007 }}</ref><ref name="googlescholar">{{GoogleScholar|4FSAZOsAAAAJ}}</ref><ref name="microsoft">{{AcademicSearch|1399760}}</ref><ref name="dblp">{{DBLP|name=Markus G. Kuhn}}</ref><ref name="scopus">{{Scopus|id=8900011300}}</ref>

==Education==
Kuhn was educated at [[University of Erlangen-Nuremberg|University of Erlangen]] (Germany), he received his Master of Science degree at [[Purdue University]] and PhD at the [[University of Cambridge]].

==Research==
Kuhn's main research interests include [[computer security]], in particular the hardware and signal-processing aspects of it, and [[distributed system]]s. He is known, among other things, for his work on [[Secure cryptoprocessor|security microcontrollers]], [[Tempest (codename)|compromising emanations]], and [[distance-bounding protocol]]s. He developed the Stirmark test for [[digital watermarking]] schemes, the [[OTPW]] one-time password system, and headed the project that extended the [[X11]] [[misc-fixed]] fonts to [[Unicode]].

In 1994, as an undergraduate student, he became known for developing several ways to circumvent the [[VideoCrypt]] encryption system, most notably the ''Season7'' smartcard emulator.<ref>{{Cite web | title=MS-DOS Videocrypt smart card emulator | url=http://www.textfiles.com/hacking/CABLE/season7.txt | date=19 June 1994 | first=Markus | last=Kuhn }}</ref>

In 2002, he published a new method for eavesdropping CRT screens<ref name="Kuhn2002" /> and in 2003 he went on to publish mitigations such as "Tempest fonts".<ref>{{cite journal |last= Kuhn |first= Markus G. |author-link= Markus Kuhn (computer scientist) |date=December 2003|title= Compromising emanations: eavesdropping risks of computer displays |journal=Technical Report |issue= 577|publisher= University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory |location= Cambridge, United Kingdom |issn= 1476-2986 |id= UCAM-CL-TR-577 |url= http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-577.pdf |access-date= 2010-10-29}}</ref>

In 2010, Kuhn was asked to analyse the [[ADE 651]], a device used in Iraq that was said to be a bomb-detecting device; he found that it contained nothing but an anti-theft tag and said that it was "impossible" that the device could detect anything whatsoever.<ref>{{cite news |work=BBC News|title=Iraq backing for 'bomb detector' |date=24 January 2010 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/8477601.stm }}</ref>

He is also known for some of his work on international standardisation, such as pioneering the introduction of [[Unicode]]/[[UTF-8]] under [[Linux]].<ref>[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux]</ref>

==Awards and honours==
In 1987 and 1988, he won the German national computer-science contest,<ref>P. Heyderhoff: Bundeswettbewerb Informatik. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 11, pp. 107–108, Springer-Verlag, 1988</ref> and in 1989, he won a gold medal for the West German team at the [[International Olympiad in Informatics]].<ref>P. Heyderhoff: Informatik-Olympiade. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 12, p. 235, Springer-Verlag, 1989</ref><ref>[http://www.oi.edu.pl/ioires/c_ioi89.html Results of the IOI 1989] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628212422/http://www.oi.edu.pl/ioires/c_ioi89.html |date=28 June 2007 }}</ref>

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