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Bruce Schneier

Security technologist; author of Applied Cryptography and the Schneier on Security blog.

• Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, security technologist and writer.
• Applied Cryptography (1994) made Schneier's name.
• Schneier founded Counterpane Internet Security in 1999 and was later CTO of Resilient Systems, staying at IBM after it bought the company until June 2019.
• Schneier is a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and the Munk School at the University of Toronto, lectures in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, sits on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt.
• Schneier has written the Crypto-Gram newsletter from 1998 and the blog Schneier on Security from 2004.

Key facts

Born

15 January 19631

Education

BS in physics, University of Rochester (1984); MS in computer science, American University (1988)1

Roles

Fellow, Berkman Klein Center (Harvard) and Munk School (Toronto); Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Chief of Security Architecture, Inrupt2

Boards

Electronic Frontier Foundation and Access Now; advisory board of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org2

Companies

Founder and CTO, Counterpane Internet Security (1999); CTO of Resilient Systems, at IBM 2016 to June 20191

Books

Applied Cryptography (1994); Secrets and Lies (2000); Beyond Fear (2003); Liars and Outliers (2012)1

Later books

Data and Goliath; Click Here to Kill Everybody; A Hacker's Mind; Rewiring Democracy2

Writing

Crypto-Gram newsletter from 1998; Schneier on Security blog from 20042

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